Rain

Backend Engineer, AI

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6 months ago
New York, NY, USAMid Level / Senior

Base Salary

$50k - $999k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Contribute significantly to Rain’s technical and product roadmap.
  • Build and scale backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines powering Rain.
  • Design and ship AI-powered features, agents, and automation into the core platform.
  • Build shared AI infrastructure including composable tool interfaces, evaluation frameworks, and permission-aware data access.
  • Rapidly deliver new capabilities to customers and internal teams.
  • Work closely with the business to understand the workflows supported by the systems.

Requirements

  • Experience with Node.js and other backend technologies.
  • 1–3+ years of experience building production systems using LLMs, tool calling, structured outputs, prompt architecture, and retrieval patterns.
  • 3–8+ years of overall professional experience.
  • Builder mentality with a willingness to experiment through side projects.
  • Ability to work through ambiguity, make decisions, and ship solutions independently.

Benefits

  • Unlimited time off with a required minimum of 10 days taken annually
  • Flexible work arrangement with work-from-home or office options and a home-office stipend for new employees
  • US health, dental, vision, and company-subsidized life insurance plans
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company matching
  • Equity option plan
  • Company-issued Rain Card for product testing
  • Health and wellness spending benefits
  • Domestic and international team and company offsites

Tech Stack

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About Rain

51-200 employees

Rain builds a card issuance and payments infrastructure platform for enterprises, fintechs, and platforms to use tokenized money in real-world transactions. Its services include compliant program management, digital-asset authorization and settlement, and rails that power stablecoin-backed cards, cross-border payouts, B2B purchases, and remittances. Founded in 2021, the privately held company partners with financial institutions and neobanks worldwide and is backed by investors such as ICONIQ, Lightspeed, Khosla, Galaxy, Sapphire, and Norwest.

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