VP of Engineering

As VP of Engineering at Rain, you own the craft, quality, and technical direction of a roughly 50-person engineering organization. This role focuses on making a small, senior team produce output that looks much larger by raising the engineering bar, tightening the systems that move real money, and staying genuinely in the code and architecture. You lead through direct reports and a small group of engineering managers and tech leads, partnering closely with Product, Risk, and Compliance.

What you'll do

• 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.
• Go deep where the risk is: review critical designs, weigh in on the highest-consequence architecture and build-versus-buy decisions, and remain technical enough to evaluate designs rigorously.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and operational excellence by establishing SLOs, improving incident response, capacity planning for 10x growth, and designing resilient systems with graceful degradation, idempotency, and replay capabilities.
• Build security, compliance, and correctness into the platform by design, partnering closely with Risk, Compliance, and Security to meet PCI, SOC 2, fraud-control, regulatory, and blockchain infrastructure requirements.
• Increase engineering velocity without sacrificing quality through improvements to CI/CD, developer tooling, local environments, technical debt management, and architecture that enables teams to ship safely and independently.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering organization by hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leads, establishing clear team ownership and boundaries, and owning headcount planning and the performance bar.
• Operate as a member of the leadership team, translating company strategy into technical plans, partnering across Product, Design, Risk, Compliance, and GTM, and representing engineering to the board, banking and network partners, and customers.

What you bring

• 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.
• 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.
• You have hired and developed engineering managers, not only engineers, with leaders you grew who would come work for you again.
• Clear written communication: you can make a complex technical tradeoff legible to a CEO, a compliance officer, and a partner's engineering team in the same week.
• Executive range: you are as comfortable in a board or partner conversation as you are in a design review, and you can hold a technical position under commercial pressure.
• Comfort with ambiguity and speed: you would rather ship something correct this quarter than design something perfect for next year.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with card issuing, processing, or the Visa and Mastercard network stack.
• Working knowledge of stablecoins, onchain settlement, custody and key management, or EVM and Solana infrastructure.
• Experience operating under SOC 2, PCI DSS, or bank and program-manager oversight.
• Experience leading distributed or multi-region teams.

What we offer

• Unlimited time off with a minimum of 10 days per year.
• Flexible working: work from home, office, or both. New hires receive a stipend to set up a home workspace.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage: we cover 95% for you and 90% for dependents, plus 100% company-subsidized life insurance.
• 401(k) with a 4% company match.
• Equity option plan.
• Monthly health and wellness stipend for gym memberships, fitness classes, massages, acupuncture, and other wellness spending.
• In-office lunch and dinner covered via DoorDash credit.
• Team and company offsites, both domestic and international.

About Rain

Rain is the global stablecoin payments platform for enterprises, neobanks, platforms, developers, and AI agents. As a Visa and Mastercard Principal Member, Rain issues cards that work at more than 175 million merchant locations across over 220 countries and territories. Built natively for stablecoins and trusted by more than 100 organizations worldwide, Rain closed a $250M Series C in January 2026, valuing the company at $1.95B.