# Engineering Manager

**Company:** [Rain](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/rain)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $300k – $400k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Backend Systems, Distributed Systems, Data Modeling, Event-Driven Design, Queues, Idempotency, Observability, Incident Response, SLOs, Error Budgets, System Resilience, Payments, Stablecoins, Evm, Solana
**Posted:** 2026-08-31

> Leads and develops senior backend and platform engineers while owning architecture, reliability, and technical standards for systems moving money globally. The role requires at least five years of leadership-level experience, current hands-on engineering, distributed systems expertise, and high-stakes payments or fintech experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, grow, and develop a team of 4–6 senior backend and platform engineers, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and career development.
- Own the architecture and technical direction of core services, including service boundaries, data modeling, build-versus-buy decisions, scalability, and technical debt.
- Remain hands-on in code approximately 30% of the time through pull request reviews, prototyping, debugging, and scoped implementation work.
- Raise engineering standards for testing, code quality, observability, incident response, on-call practices, and operational excellence.
- Own reliability, correctness, and auditability for global money movement systems, including SLOs, error budgets, resilience, and platform maturity.
- Translate business and product goals into sequenced technical plans and communicate scope, tradeoffs, dependencies, and risks across Product, Compliance, Finance, and leadership.
- Partner on organizational design, headcount planning, technical strategy, and engineering practices.

## Requirements
- 4+ years building production software, including 3+ years managing and developing engineers.
- Current, demonstrable hands-on production coding or code review experience.
- Deep experience with distributed backend systems at scale, including data modeling, consistency, idempotency, queues, and event-driven design.
- Track record of improving engineering quality, velocity, or reliability through concrete practices.
- Experience with on-call ownership, incident command, and post-incident follow-through.
- Experience in payments, fintech, banking infrastructure, or another high-stakes domain involving money, ledgers, or regulatory obligations.
- Strong hiring, coaching, and written communication skills.
- Comfort working with ambiguity and at high speed.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with card issuing, payment processing, or Visa and Mastercard network infrastructure.
- Knowledge of stablecoins, on-chain settlement, custody, 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 of $300,000–$400,000.
- Unlimited time off, with a minimum of 10 days required annually.
- Flexible work arrangements and a home-office setup stipend.
- For US employees: company coverage of 95% of health, dental, and vision costs and 90% for dependents.
- Company-subsidized life insurance.
- 401(k) with a 4% company match.
- Equity option plan.
- Monthly health and wellness stipend.
- In-office meals and domestic and international team summits.

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