# VP of Engineering at Rain

- Company: Rain
- What the company does: Explore Rain’s enterprise payments infrastructure for stablecoin-powered cards and global money movement. Fast settlement, scalable API, and trusted performance. Backed by Norwest.
- Company website: https://www.raincards.xyz/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, NY
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $320K to $450K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-31
- Apply by: 2026-10-15
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rain/121e35fd-ad20-4d95-91e9-7ad2da64c2d5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rain-vp-of-engineering/

## About the role

Own engineering strategy and architecture across card issuing, wallets, ledger, money movement, onchain settlement, and integrations with card networks and banking partners — including the multi-year technical roadmap that gets us there. 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.

## What they're looking for

- 15+ years building production software, including 8+ years leading engineers and meaningful time leading managers
- Current technical credibility. You have written or reviewed meaningful production code recently enough that an architecture review is a place you add value, not a place you nod along
- 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

Tags: Technology and Product