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About the Role
We are hiring a Head of Engineering to own the craft, quality, and technical direction of a roughly 30-person engineering organization. This role focuses on enabling a small, senior team to produce output comparable to a much larger one by raising the engineering bar, optimizing systems, and actively participating in code and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Set and own Rain’s engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership by staying active in the codebase, reviewing critical PRs and designs, prototyping high-risk components, debugging production issues, and making key architectural and build-vs.-buy decisions.
- Own the technical architecture and strategy across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving incident response, capacity planning for 10x growth, and designing resilient systems.
- Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, and Security.
- Increase engineering velocity without sacrificing quality through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by coaching engineering managers and technical leads, maintaining a high hiring and performance bar, establishing clear team ownership, and partnering effectively across Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and GTM.
Requirements
- 10+ years building production software, including 4+ years leading engineers.
- Currently and demonstrably hands-on with meaningful production code within the last year.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale: data modeling, consistency and idempotency, queues and event-driven design, and operational reality.
- A track record of raising an engineering bar with measurable improvements in quality, velocity, or reliability.
- Real reliability ownership, including carrying a pager, running incident command, and implementing preventative measures.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or a domain where correctness is critical.
- Strong hiring and coaching instincts.
- Clear written communication skills to explain complex technical tradeoffs to diverse audiences.
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed, prioritizing shipping correct solutions this quarter.
- Hands-on experience with card issuing, processing, or the Visa and Mastercard network stack (Bonus).
- Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, or EVM and Solana infrastructure (Bonus).
- Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight (Bonus).
- Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams (Bonus).
Skills
- System design
- Code review
- Testing
- Observability
- Technical decision-making
- Distributed backend systems
- Data modeling
- Consistency and idempotency
- Queues and event-driven design
- Reliability
- Scalability
- Operational excellence
- Incident response
- Capacity planning
- Resilient systems design
- Security
- Compliance
- Correctness by design
- CI/CD
- Developer tooling
- Technical debt management
- Architecture
- Hiring
- Coaching
- Written communication
- Card issuing
- Card processing
- Visa network stack
- Mastercard network stack
- Stablecoins
- Onchain settlement
- Custody and key management
- EVM infrastructure
- Solana infrastructure
- SOC 2
- PCI DSS
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years building production software
- 4+ years leading engineers
Benefits
- Unlimited time off (minimum 10 days required)
- Flexible working environment (home, office, or both)
- Stipend for home workspace setup
- 95% company coverage for health, dental, and vision plans (US)
- 90% company coverage for dependents' health, dental, and vision plans (US)
- 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan (US)
- 401(k) with a 4% company match
- Equity plan
- Monthly stipend for health and wellness spending
- In-office meals (lunch and dinner covered via DoorDash credit)
- Team summits (domestic and international offsites)
About the Company
- Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents.
- Our technology allows partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, wallets, and cross-border rails.
- As both a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries and territories.
- Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world.
- We have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company backed by top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS.
- In January 2026, we closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ, valuing Rain at $1.95B.
- We believe in an open and flat structure where team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.