Tech Lead

• The Core Services team builds and maintains the fundamental engine that powers the entire Rain ecosystem
• While our Enterprise teams focus on the “how” of connecting to partners, Core Services owns the “what” - managing the absolute source of truth for transactions, balances, and financial movement
• We are seeking an experienced Tech Lead to spearhead the development within our Core Services squad
• Core Services is responsible for employee balances, debt management, which includes ledger management, billing, repayments, and repayment reconciliation
• In this role, you will lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, while shaping the architectural direction of our products
• Our ideal candidate is passionate about solving complex technical challenges and eager to play a key role in driving our strategic vision forward
• Translate product requirements into robust technical solutions, recommend alternative approaches and lead engineering efforts to meet ambitious targets
• Lead a multidisciplinary team and manage the team’s tech refinements and productivity
• Design and implement reliable systems and applications in the context of a fully distributed micro-services architecture
• Build and maintain integrations with 3rd-party vendors and partners
• Design and implement highly available RESTful APIs supporting our internal admin portals
• Focus on creating reusable code and libraries that can be shared across teams, fostering collaboration and ensuring scalability for future projects
• Enforce observability best practices, leveraging tools like logging, metrics and alerting systems
• Create and maintain detailed technical documentation for all solutions, including architecture designs, APIs, workflows, and system configurations
• Continuously monitor Rain systems and applications for opportunities to maximize performance and scalability
• Effective cross-team communication and collaboration to align priorities, clarify requirements, identify dependencies, and ensure seamless coordination throughout the software development lifecycle

Benefits

• We offer volunteer opportunities and encourage our team members to prioritize their physical and mental health

• Remote work & a hybrid option for team members in our Nashville hub

• Opportunities for growth - we encourage employees to seek new passions within the company

• Flexible benefits package to fit your needs

• You have 7+ years of professional experience, with at least 2+ years in a formal or informal leadership role

• You don’t just write code; you design systems. You understand the trade-offs between consistency and availability in distributed environments

• You’re familiar with complex large scale distributed systems

• You have excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills

• You have a strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions

• Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and a “you build it, you run it” mentality toward infrastructure-as-code

• Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), specifically regarding transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale

• Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python

• Strong experience with Kafka for building resilient, asynchronous workflows

• Proven experience at building reliable and scalable user-facing applications

• Advanced knowledge of AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS) and container orchestration using Docker/Kubernetes