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title: 'Head of Engineering at Rain'
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# Head of Engineering at Rain

- **Company:** Rain
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $300k–$400k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rain/031a1169-8af5-4e1f-ae92-56a7fcce3ac7

## Job description

## 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.

You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company backed by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS. In January 2026, we closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ, valuing Rain at $1.95B, with Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst also participating. If you're curious, bold, and excited to help shape a borderless financial future, we'd love to talk.

## OUR ETHOS

We believe in an open and flat structure. You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals. Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.

## ABOUT THE TEAM

We are hiring a Head of Engineering to own the craft, quality, and technical direction of a roughly 30-person engineering organization. This is deliberately not a role about growing headcount to 150. It is a role about making a small, senior team produce output that looks like a much larger one — by raising the engineering bar, tightening the systems that move real money, and being genuinely in the code and the architecture rather than adjacent to it.

You will lead through a mix of direct reports and a small group of engineering managers and tech leads, partnering closely with Product, Risk, and Compliance. You will spend your time on design reviews, incident retros, hiring, and the handful of technical bets that determine whether we can support the next order of magnitude of transaction volume.

If your ideal week is entirely calendar blocks and roadmap decks, this is not the right role. If your ideal week includes a hard design debate, a code review that changes someone's mind, and a coaching conversation that raises a manager's ceiling, keep reading.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Set and own Rain’s engineering quality bar across system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making, ensuring correctness is treated as critical for systems that move customer funds.
- 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 with graceful degradation, idempotency, and replay capabilities.
- Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, and Security to meet PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements.
- Increase engineering velocity without sacrificing quality through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture that enables teams to ship safely and independently.
- 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.

YOU ARE LIKELY TO SUCCEED IF YOU HAVE:

- 10+ years building production software, including 4+ years leading engineers — ideally as a Head of Engineering, Director, or Senior EM at a company where the systems handled real consequences.
- Currently and demonstrably hands-on. You have written or reviewed meaningful production code within the last year and you want a role where that continues.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale: data modeling, consistency and idempotency, queues and event-driven design, and the operational reality of running all of it.
- A track record of raising an engineering bar. You can point to specific practices you introduced and the measurable change in quality, velocity, or reliability that followed.
- Real reliability ownership — you have carried a pager, run incident command during a serious outage, and built the follow-through that kept it from recurring.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or another domain where money, ledgers, or regulatory obligations made correctness non-negotiable.
- Strong hiring and coaching instincts, with managers or senior engineers you have developed who would work for you again.
- Clear written communication. You can make a complex technical tradeoff legible to a CEO, a compliance officer, and a partner's engineering team in the same week.
- Comfort with ambiguity and speed. You would rather ship something correct this quarter than design something perfect for next year.

## BONUS ATTRIBUTES:

- Hands-on experience with card issuing, processing, or the Visa and Mastercard network stack.
- Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, or EVM and Solana infrastructure.
- Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight.
- Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams.

THINGS THAT ENABLE A FULFILLING, HEALTHY AND HAPPY EXPERIENCE AT RAIN:

Unlimited time off 🌴 Unlimited vacation can be daunting, so we require Rainmakers to take 10 days minimum for themselves.

Flexible working ☕ We support a flexible workplace – work from home, come into an office, or both. We want everyone to work in an environment where they're their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers receive a stipend to set up a comfortable home workspace.

Easy to access benefits 🧠 For US Rainmakers, we cover 95% of your health, dental, and vision plan costs and 90% for your dependents, plus a 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan.

Retirement goals💡 Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.

Equity plan 📦 Every Rainmaker gets an equity option plan so we all benefit from our success.

Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers receive a monthly stipend to be used for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!

In-office meals 🍜 Rainmakers working from the office enjoy lunch and dinner on us, covered with a DoorDash credit.

Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain. Time together helps us build relationships and a common destiny. Expect team and company offsites, both domestic and international.

## About Rain

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Financial Services, Payments, Stablecoin Infrastructure
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, fintechs, platforms, and institutions needing compliant card programs and cross-border payment rails
- **Mission**: Build the infrastructure that turns stablecoins into usable financial products, enabling tokenized money to move at internet speed while delivering familiar user experiences

## Products & Services
- **Cards**: Launch prepaid or credit card programs (virtual and physical) powered by stablecoin infrastructure, accepted at 175M+ merchant locations worldwide. Includes scoped virtual cards for agentic payments.
- **Wallets**: Store stablecoins with flexible, secure setups; offer branded wallet-in-a-box for digital dollar access in underbanked regions.
- **Money Movement**: Send and receive fiat and stablecoin payments globally, with daily onchain settlement to card networks.
- **Accounts**: Virtual accounts with static routing details to send and receive funds.
- **Onramps/Offramps**: Convert fiat into stablecoins and stablecoins into local currency.
- **Rewards**: Card-native rewards programs that drive usage and revenue.
- **Agent Control Layer**: Guardrails for controlled agentic payments, allowing agents to spend and move money safely.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.95 billion (as of Series C, January 2026)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $338M+ (Series C: $250M led by ICONIQ Capital, January 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: ICONIQ Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Galaxy, Khosla Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, Uniswap, FirstMark, Vinyl, Thayer, BDMI, CompoSecure, Canonical Crypto, Hard Yaka, Samsung Next, Goldcrest Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, Mischief. Mastercard Principal Member and Visa Principal Member.
- **Growth Signals**: 107 employees (+421% YoY); operates in 12 countries; trusted by hundreds of partners moving billions in transaction volume annually; became a Mastercard Principal Member in 2026; launched Agent Control Layer.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Stablecoin-native by design**: Built from the ground up for onchain money movement, not legacy rails with crypto added later.
- **Daily onchain settlement**: Settles card transactions with networks daily using stablecoins, improving capital efficiency and speed.
- **Principal membership with Visa and Mastercard**: Direct issuing without intermediaries, enabling global acceptance and compliance.
- **Unified API**: Combines accounts, cards, ramps, rewards, and money movement in one platform, reducing vendor fragmentation.
- **Full-stack compliance**: Compliance, risk, and program operations built into the platform with hands-on support from design through launch.

## Strategic Focus
- **Geographic expansion**: Scaling stablecoin payment infrastructure to APAC and beyond, with existing presence in US, LATAM, EU, and EMEA.
- **Agentic payments**: Enabling controlled, autonomous spending through the Agent Control Layer for AI agents and automated workflows.
- **Deepening enterprise adoption**: Winning large institutions and platforms by offering a complete, compliant stablecoin payments stack.
- **Growing card programs**: Expanding prepaid and credit card issuance for global HNWIs, cross-border B2B payments, and branded wallet-in-a-box solutions.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Rainmakers” are described as bold builders shaping how money moves for the next generation. Emphasis on high performance, intentional investment in team, and long-term mindset.
- **Work model**: Hybrid setup with a Flatiron office (NYC) for local teammates; flexible remote options for other locations.
- **Perks**: Equity ownership for every team member; $1,000 home office stipend; $350/month wellness support (fitness, therapy, personal well-being); 95% of medical, dental, and vision premiums covered; unlimited PTO; 401(k) with matching; regular team events, offsites, and dinners.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong technical team (33% of staff in technical roles), modern stack (EVM, fullstack, Android), and opportunities to work on cutting-edge stablecoin infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [rain.xyz/careers](https://www.rain.xyz/careers)
2. [rain.xyz/](https://www.rain.xyz/)
3. [rain.xyz/about-us](https://www.rain.xyz/about-us)
4. [linkedin.com/company/rainxyz](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainxyz)
5. [rain.xyz/media-kit](https://www.rain.xyz/media-kit)

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