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About the Role
Rain is seeking a Head of Engineering to lead a 50-person engineering organization, focusing on enhancing craft, quality, and technical direction. This role emphasizes making a senior team highly productive by raising the engineering bar, optimizing systems, and actively participating in code and architecture. The position involves leading through direct reports and managers, collaborating with Product, Risk, and Compliance, and focusing on design reviews, incident retrospectives, hiring, and key technical decisions for scaling transaction volume.
Responsibilities
- Own engineering strategy and architecture across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners, including the multi-year technical roadmap.
- Set and own Rain's engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
- Review critical designs, weigh in on high-consequence architecture and build-vs.-buy decisions.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving incident response, capacity planning, and designing resilient systems.
- Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, and Security.
- Increase engineering velocity through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture.
- Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leads, establishing clear team ownership, and owning headcount planning and performance.
- Operate as a member of the leadership team, translating company strategy into technical plans, partnering across departments, and representing engineering to the board, partners, and customers.
Requirements
- 15+ years building production software, including 8+ years leading engineers and meaningful time leading managers.
- Current technical credibility with recent meaningful production code experience.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale, including data modeling, consistency, idempotency, queues, event-driven design, and operational realities.
- A track record of raising an engineering bar with specific examples of introduced practices and measurable outcomes.
- Real reliability ownership, including experience with pagers, incident command, and follow-through to prevent recurrence.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or a similar domain where correctness is critical.
- Experience hiring and developing engineering managers.
- Clear written communication skills for translating complex technical tradeoffs to diverse audiences.
- Executive range, comfortable in board or partner conversations and able to hold technical positions under commercial pressure.
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed, prioritizing timely and correct shipping over perfect long-term design.
Skills
- Distributed backend systems
- Data modeling
- Consistency and idempotency
- Queues and event-driven design
- Reliability engineering
- Incident command
- Payments
- Fintech
- Banking infrastructure
- Engineering management
- Technical leadership
- System design
- Code review
- Testing
- Observability
- Documentation
- CI/CD
- Developer tooling
- Technical debt management
- Architecture
- Hiring
- Coaching
- Performance management
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Board and partner communication
- 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
- Bank oversight
- Program-manager oversight
- Distributed teams
- Multi-region teams
Location
- Remote
- Hybrid
- Onsite
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 15+ years of experience
- 8+ years of leadership experience
- Experience leading managers
Benefits
- Unlimited time off (minimum 10 days required)
- Flexible working environment (home, office, or hybrid)
- Stipend for home workspace setup
- 95% coverage of health, dental, and vision plan costs for US employees
- 90% coverage of health, dental, and vision plan costs for dependents
- 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan
- 401(k) with a 4% company match
- Equity option plan
- Monthly stipend for health and wellness spending
- In-office meals provided via DoorDash credit
- Team summits and offsites
About the Company
- Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents.
- Our technology enables partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through various financial products.
- As a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards accepted globally.
- Rain is built natively for stablecoins and trusted by over 100 organizations worldwide, providing secure and scalable infrastructure for global money movement.
- The company is hypergrowth, backed by top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS, with a recent $250M Series C funding round valuing Rain at $1.95B.
- We believe in an open and flat structure, empowering team members to grow, explore ideas, and impact the company's roadmap and vision.