About the posting
“Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world.”
Read the full posting on Rain's site
Seen live Oct 23, 2026; first seen Oct 22, 2026.
Pay in context
This posting lists $200,000 to $250,000 a year, a midpoint of $225,000.
The midpoint is higher than 56 percent of software engineering postings in New York, NY that list pay.
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How long it has been open
Posted Mar 24, 2026, 213 days ago, and seen on Rain's careers page today.
At 213 days old, it is over the 73-day median.
Rain at a glance
Rain has 37 open postings that we can see, 6 in software engineering; 100 percent list pay.
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Seniority
The posting mentions 3+ years.
Place and cost of living
On site in New York, NY; prices in NY run 8 percent above the US average.
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From Rain's posting
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ABOUT THE COMPANY
Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. Our technology allows partners to move, store, and use stablecoins instantly and compliantly through global payment cards, rewards, on/offramps, wallets, and cross-border rails. As both a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations in over 220 countries and territories. Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain delivers secure, scalable infrastructure that makes money move freely and instantly around the world.
You will have the opportunity to deliver massive impact at a hypergrowth company backed by some of the top investors in fintech, crypto, and SaaS. In January 2026, we closed a $250M Series C led by ICONIQ, valuing Rain at $1.95B, with Sapphire Ventures, Dragonfly, Bessemer Venture Partners, Galaxy Ventures, FirstMark, Lightspeed, Norwest, and Endeavor Catalyst also participating. If you're curious, bold, and excited to help shape a borderless financial future, we'd love to talk.
OUR ETHOS
We believe in an open and flat structure. You will be able to grow into the role that most aligns with your goals. Our team members at all levels have the freedom to explore ideas and impact the roadmap and vision of our company.
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 – work from home, come into an office, or both. We want everyone to work in an environment where they're their most confident and productive selves. New Rainmakers receive a stipend to set up a comfortable home workspace.
Easy to access benefits 🧠 For US Rainmakers, we cover 95% of your health, dental, and vision plan costs and 90% for your dependents, plus a 100% company-subsidized life insurance plan.
Retirement goals💡 Plan for the future with confidence. We offer a 401(k) with a 4% company match.
Equity plan 📦 Every Rainmaker gets an equity option plan so we all benefit from our success.
Health and Wellness 📚 High performance begins from within. Rainmakers receive a monthly stipend to be used for eligible health and wellness spending like gym memberships/fitness classes, massages, acupuncture - whatever recharges you!
In-office meals 🍜 Rainmakers working from the office enjoy lunch and dinner on us, covered with a DoorDash credit.
Team summits ✨ Summits play an important role at Rain. Time together helps us build relationships and a common destiny. Expect team and company offsites, both domestic and international.