Rain

Backend Engineer, AI

Rain

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York CityNew YorkUnited States

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Salary

💰 $150,000 - $250,000 per year

About the role

  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • 3–8+ years of experience, compensation will be based on experience
  • Eval framework design and fintech experience is nice to have
Benefits
  • Unlimited time off
  • Flexible working
  • Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans
  • 100% company subsidized life insurance plan
  • 401(k) with a 4% company match
  • Equity option plan
  • Rain Cards for testing our core products
  • Eligible health and wellness spending
  • Team summits and company offsites
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Node.jsbackend technologiesproduction systemsLLMstool callingstructured outputsprompt architectureretrieval patternseval framework design
Soft Skills
builder mentalitycomfortable with ambiguitydecision making