Rain
Backend Engineer, AI
$200K–$250K
New York, NY · On-site · Full-time · Posted Mar 24, 2026
- Experience
- 3–8+ years overall; 1–3+ years building production systems that use LLMs and related techniques.
About the job
Build backend systems and AI-powered features for Rain’s payments platform, including agentic payment systems and shared AI infrastructure.
What you'll do
- Build and scale backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines.
- Design and ship AI-powered features, agents, and automation.
- Build shared AI infrastructure, including tool interfaces, evaluation frameworks, and permission-aware data access.
What they ask for
- Experience with Node.js and other backend technologies.
- 1–3+ years building production systems using LLMs, tool calling, structured outputs, prompt architecture, and retrieval patterns.
- Builder mentality, including experimenting with side projects.
- Comfort taking loosely defined problems, making decisions, and shipping.
Nice to have
- Eval framework design.
- Fintech experience, especially neobank or card issuing; experience building internal tools or platform systems at a growth-stage company.
Pay
$200K – $250K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
Tools
Node.js, LLMs
AI focus
Build AI-powered features, agents, automation, and shared AI infrastructure for internal operations and customer-facing payment systems, including agentic payments.
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