Rain

Backend Engineer, AI

Rain • $125K — $150K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Experience with Node.js and other backend technologies
  • 1-3+ years building production systems utilizing LLMs and AI features
  • Builder mentality with side project experience
  • Comfort with ambiguity in problem-solving
  • 3-8+ years of relevant experience preferred

Responsibilities

  • Develop and influence the technical and product roadmap
  • Build and scale backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines
  • Design and implement AI-powered features and automation
  • Create shared AI infrastructure and evaluation frameworks
  • Rapidly deliver new capabilities to users
  • Collaborate closely with business teams to understand workflows

Benefits

  • Unlimited vacation with a minimum of 10 days off
  • Flexible work environment options
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) plan with 4% company match
  • Equity options for all employees
  • Testing support with company-issued Rain Cards
  • Wellness spending options for health-related activities
  • Team summits to enhance team bonding and collaboration
Full Job Description
About the Team

You'll be one of the first engineers on Rain's new AI team. We're building from the ground up internal systems that make our operations smarter and customer-facing infrastructure at the intersection of AI agents, fintech, and stablecoins, including some of the first agentic payment systems in production. If you want to shape how AI gets built into a payments company, this is the role.

What You'll Do
  • Be a critical part of the technical and product roadmap
  • Build and scale the backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines that power Rain
  • Design and ship AI-powered features, agents, and automation into our core platform
  • Build shared AI infrastructure: composable tool interfaces, eval frameworks, and permission-aware data access
  • Rapidly ship new capabilities to our customers and internal teams
  • Work embedded with the business, understand the workflows you're building for firsthand


What We're Looking For
  • Experience with Node.js and other backend technologies
  • 1-3+ years building production systems that use LLMs, tool calling, structured outputs, prompt architecture, retrieval patterns
  • A builder mentality, someone who experiments with side projects
  • Comfortable with ambiguity, you can take a loosely defined problem, make decisions, and ship
  • This position is for folks with 3-8+ years of experience, compensation will be based on experience


Nice to Have
  • Eval framework design, building systematic ways to measure AI quality
  • Fintech experience (neobank or card issuing experience gets extra brownie points)
  • Experience building internal tools or platform systems at a growth-stage company


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, if you feel comfortable at home please work from home. If you'd like to work with others in an office feel free to come in. We want everyone to be able to work in the environment in which they are their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers will have a stipend to create a comfortable atmosphere at home.

Easy to access benefits For US Rainmakers, we offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for you and your dependents, as well as a 100% company subsidized life insurance plan.

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

Equity plan 📦 We offer every Rainmakers an equity option plan so we can all can benefit from our success.

Rain Cards 🌧 We want Rainmakers to be knowledgeable about our core products and services. To support this mission, we issue a card for our team to utilize the card for testing.

Health and Wellness High performance begins from within. Rainmakers are welcome to use their card for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!

Team summits Summits play an important role at Rain! Time spent together helps us get to know each other, strengthen our relationships, and build a common destiny. Expect team and company offsites both domestically and internationally.

About Rain

Rain is a clothing brand that specializes in waterproof jackets. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Vancouver, Canada. Rain's jackets are made from a waterproof and breathable fabric and are designed to be both functional and stylish. The company offers a range of jackets for men and women, as well as accessories such as hats and bags. Rain sells its products online and through select retailers.
Learn more about Rain
Size
10 employees
Industry
Founded
2017

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