
Backend Engineer, AI
Rain
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $150,000 - $250,000 per year
Tech Stack
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