# VP of Engineering

**Company:** [Rain](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rain)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $320k – $450k/yr
**Experience:** 15+ years
**Skills:** Distributed Systems, Data Modeling, Event-Driven Design, Idempotency, Queues, SLOs, Incident Response, CI/CD, Observability, System Architecture, Pci Dss, SOC 2, Stablecoins, Onchain Settlement, Card Issuing
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads the technical direction, quality, reliability, and organizational development of a 50-person engineering organization supporting payments, ledgers, wallets, and blockchain infrastructure. Requires 15+ years of production software experience, deep distributed-systems expertise, and substantial experience leading engineers and managers.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own engineering strategy, architecture, and the multi-year technical roadmap across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners.
- Set and maintain the engineering quality bar for system design, code review, testing, observability, documentation, and technical decision-making.
- Review critical designs and high-consequence architecture and build-versus-buy decisions.
- Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence through SLOs, incident response, capacity planning, resilient systems, graceful degradation, idempotency, and replay capabilities.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Security to build PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements into the platform.
- Improve CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture to increase safe, independent delivery.
- Hire and coach engineering managers and technical leads, establish team ownership and boundaries, and own headcount planning and performance standards.
- Translate company strategy into technical plans and represent Engineering to leadership, the board, banking and network partners, and customers.

## Requirements
- 15+ years building production software, including 8+ years leading engineers and meaningful experience leading managers.
- Recent experience writing or reviewing meaningful production code and contributing technical judgment in architecture reviews.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale, including data modeling, consistency, idempotency, queues, event-driven design, and operations.
- Track record of raising engineering quality, velocity, or reliability through measurable process and practice improvements.
- Experience owning reliability, carrying a pager, leading serious incident response, and preventing recurrence.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or another domain where correctness and regulatory obligations are critical.
- Experience hiring and developing engineering managers.
- Strong written communication and executive-level communication skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

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

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual salary range of $320,000–$450,000.
- Unlimited time off with a 10-day minimum.
- Flexible work arrangements and a home workspace stipend.
- US health, dental, and vision coverage, including 95% employee and 90% dependent coverage.
- Company-subsidized life insurance.
- 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Equity option plan.
- Monthly health and wellness stipend.
- In-office meals and company offsites.

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