--- title: 'Engineering Lead at Rain Technologies Inc.' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/engineering-lead-rain-technologies-inc-lisbon-mx3sk3k0hj97' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-12' --- # Engineering Lead at Rain Technologies Inc. - **Company:** Rain Technologies Inc. - **Location:** Lisbon, Portugal - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-07-08 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-12 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rain-technologies/84ce9cef-273b-4f48-86b3-eaa68894ce67/application **Skills:** Go, Python, SQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Microservices, RESTfulfill APIs > Lead a multidisciplinary engineering squad to build and maintain the Core Services platform, focusing on employee balances, debt management, and ledger systems. The role involves designing distributed microservices architectures, implementing RESTful APIs, and ensuring high availability and scalability of financial... ## Job description Rain is the world's first AI Financial Health Platform, serving 3.5 million employees at leading organizations like McDonald's, Marriott, and T-Mobile. Rain works in the background to optimize every employee's financial life to prevent shortfalls and build long-term stability. Backed by top investors including QED and Prosus, Rain has raised $150M in venture funding to fuel our next stage of hyper growth. We are looking for a Tech Lead to join our engineering team. This position is remote. You will lead a multidisciplinary squad of backend, frontend, and QA engineers, owning the foundational systems that serve as the source of truth for transactions, balances, and financial movement across our platform. You will shape the architectural direction of our financial health product offering. This includes designing novel financial product systems, spearheading banking partner integrations, and maintaining precision across our ledgers and repayment reconciliation processes. This is a rare opportunity to build the backbone of a whole new set of personal financial health products. You will set the technical bar for the team, guide system design decisions, and drive the reliability and accuracy that our users depend on to manage their financial lives. Working closely with product and engineering partners, you will operate in a fast-paced environment where sound architectural judgment and the ability to move quickly without sacrificing precision are essential. Our ideal candidate is passionate about solving complex technical challenges, eager to shape strategic direction, and motivated to lead a team building critical infrastructure from the ground up. ## What You’ll Do - 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. ## Who You Are - 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 have a strong ability to take ownership of projects, driving initiatives from concept to completion, while proactively identifying challenges and solutions - You have excellent cross-functional collaboration and communication skills - You’re familiar with complex large scale distributed systems Required Technical Qualifications - Expert-level proficiency in Go (Golang) and/or Python - Deep expertise in SQL (PostgreSQL), specifically regarding transaction isolation levels, locking strategies, and schema migrations at scale - 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 - Experience building or improving CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions/GitLab CI) and a "you build it, you run it" mentality toward infrastructure-as-code Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Commitments 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 Careers@rain.us. What’s Next Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility. ## About Rain Technologies Inc. ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Rain provides an earned wage access (EWA) platform that gives employees instant access to wages they’ve already earned, alongside comprehensive financial health tools. - **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed, Series B) - **Headquarters**: Nashville, Tennessee, USA - **Founded**: 2019 - **Founders**: Alex Bradford (CEO) and team ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Fintech – Earned Wage Access (EWA) and workforce financial wellness. - **Target customers**: B2B – mid-market to Fortune 500 employers (employer-paid model), serving their hourly and salaried workers. - **Mission/purpose**: “Empower people to reach financial freedom” by providing responsible, on-demand access to pay and tools for long-term financial health. ## Products & Services - **Rain EWA**: An enterprise-grade earned wage access platform that integrates with existing payroll and HR systems. Employees can access earned wages before payday – not a loan, not credit. The platform collects minimal data (6 fields, no SSN/DOB) and uses a proprietary data-ingestion system. Includes employer-controlled guardrails, pay stub transparency, and white-glove 24/7 U.S.-based user support (response <30 seconds). - **Financial Health Suite**: Budgeting tools, spending analysis, free tax filing, financial coaching, and balance protection – all included with the EWA service to help employees build long-term financial security. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Recent Funding**: Total funding raised **$489M** (PitchBook). Latest deal: **Series B of $72.4M**. Investors include 38 backers (venture capital). - **Key Metric**: **3.5M+ employees** empowered across **1,200+ employers** and **50+ partners**. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not individually listed in provided sources, but the company is venture-backed and has Fortune 500 clients. - **Growth Signals**: - Job postings trend: Monthly +420%, quarterly +246.7%, yearly +1200% (LinkedIn). - Reported outcomes: 2x turnover improvement after 1 year, 35% increase in timeclock compliance, 15-30% more hours worked per month, and more job applications. - Rapid adoption by Fortune 500 employers. ## Competitive Advantages - **Enterprise-grade security & compliance**: SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, ISO/IEC 27001 certified, end-to-end encryption, third-party audited. - **Data-minimal model**: Collects only 6 required data fields (no SSN/DOB), the least data of any U.S. EWA provider. - **AI-driven platform**: Proprietary data-ingestion system and AI-era execution speed, built and maintained by an in-house U.S. engineering team. - **Employer control & retention ROI**: Keeps payroll and data in the employer’s control, with proven metrics on reducing turnover, absenteeism, and financial stress. - **Full-service financial health**: Offers budgeting, coaching, tax filing, and other tools beyond just EWA, increasing employee engagement. ## Strategic Focus - Continue to expand adoption among Fortune 500 and large enterprises. - Deepen the financial health platform with AI-driven personalization and tools that go beyond “payday access.” - Scale the U.S.-centric technology and support operations while maintaining best-in-class security and data privacy. - Lead the industry in setting standards for responsible, compliant EWA. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values-driven culture centered on Unity, Innovation, Accountability, Empathy, and Leadership. Strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. - **Work model**: Remote/hybrid – work from home, a cafe, or the historic dog-friendly Nashville office. Flexible arrangements aligned with productivity. - **Benefits**: - Comprehensive medical, dental, vision. - 401(k) with diverse investment options. - Monthly stipend for home-office/office/professional development. - Wellness programs (Headspace, Wellhub). - Flexible time off. - **Engineering culture**: In-house, U.S.-based engineering team building a proprietary technology platform. Emphasis on innovation and challenging the status quo. - **Growth opportunity**: Company is in hyper-growth (1200% job posting growth year-over-year) with a mission-driven focus on financial empowerment. Impact on millions of employees. ## Sources 1. [rainapp.com](https://www.rainapp.com/) – Company homepage (product, security, metrics) 2. [rainapp.com/careers](https://www.rainapp.com/careers) – Careers page (benefits, values, culture) 3. [rainapp.com/build/about-us](https://www.rainapp.com/build/about-us) – About Us (mission, metrics, podcast) 4. [pitchbook.com](https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/431215-75) – PitchBook profile (funding, employee count, founding date, headquarters) 5. 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