Rain is a venture-backed fintech with a mission to enable billions of people to reach financial freedom. Our first product gives employees instant access to their earned wages, enabling people to start their journey to financial success. Rain is the fastest-growing startup in the category and was incubated with QED Capital, a top fintech venture fund.

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Brazil. This position is remote. The candidate will be responsible for managing various areas of our backend platform, including API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners.

As a Senior Software Engineer with Rain, you will play a central role as we scale to 1M+ users. You will work with our US based product and engineering teams to implement quickly and contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle. Our ideal candidate is excited to tackle tough technical challenges and looking for opportunities to contribute to our strategic thinking.

Responsibilities:

• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines
• Operational Excellence - monitoring & operation of production services including implementation of adequate resilience and high-availability models to support 24x7 operational availability
• Manage backend API integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
• Manage integration of user-facing elements developed by our front-end developers with server side logic
• Build reusable code and libraries for future use
• Optimize Rain application for maximum speed and scalability
• Design and implementation of data storage solutions

Skills and Qualifications:

• 7+ years of Software Development experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education and work experience.
• Proficient knowledge of back-end programming languages such as Go / Golang, Java and C++
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies and platforms, especially React and React Native
• Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
• Solid understanding of REST API design and development with experience building REST APIs 
• Experience with API security standards and implementation (OAuth,)
• Good experience with API frameworks
• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Management of hosting environment, including database administration and scaling an application to support load changes
• Data migration, transformation, and scripting
• Setup and administration of backups
• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

As part of our dedication to the diversity of our workforce, Rain is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, sex (including pregnancy), protected veteran status, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any unlawful criterion existing under applicable federal, state, or local laws. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected].