Top Engineering Jobs in New York City, NY

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, quality, reliability, security, and scalability of Rain’s approximately 50-person engineering organization. Oversee critical payment, wallet, ledger, settlement, and partner-integration systems; establish engineering standards, SLOs, incident practices, and developer tooling; review high-impact designs; and develop engineering managers and technical leads. Partner with Product, Risk, Compliance, leadership, board members, banking partners, and customers while planning for significant transaction-volume growth.

Lead and develop a team of senior backend and platform engineers while owning architecture, technical direction, reliability, and engineering standards. The role combines people management with approximately 30% hands-on work, including code reviews, prototyping, debugging, and implementation. Responsibilities include hiring, coaching, incident response, scalability, observability, SLOs, technical planning, and cross-functional partnership with Product, Compliance, Finance, and leadership for systems processing global payments.

Lead a 30-person engineering organization while remaining hands-on in code, architecture, design reviews, production debugging, and technical decision-making. Own engineering quality, reliability, scalability, security, compliance, and operational excellence across payments, wallets, ledgers, card issuing, and blockchain infrastructure. Coach engineering managers and technical leads, improve delivery practices, oversee incident response, and prepare systems for significant transaction growth while partnering closely with Product, Risk, Compliance, Security, and external partners.

Design, build, and maintain Soroban smart contracts and backend services integrating Stellar, EVM, and Solana. Scale on-chain infrastructure for high-volume transactions and real-time processing, drive architecture and roadmap, and ship features iteratively.

Design, build, and maintain Solana programs and backend services that integrate with Solana, EVM, and Stellar. Scale on-chain infrastructure for high-volume transactions and data ingestion, drive architecture and product roadmap decisions, and ship secure, reliable capabilities to customers.

Collaborate with customers and teams to deliver complex offerings, drive technical roadmap, and make architectural decisions.

As a Backend Engineer, you'll contribute to product roadmaps, scale infrastructure, integrate services, and drive architectural decisions while interacting with smart contracts.

As a Solutions Engineer, you'll architect integrations for stablecoin technology, guide clients through implementations, and ensure successful technical solutions.

You will contribute to backend and blockchain infrastructure, interact with smart contracts, and drive development of new capabilities. You'll also help scale infrastructure globally and influence architectural decisions.

Provide end-user IT support, manage onboarding/offboarding and device provisioning, own asset inventory and onsite networking/AV. Build identity and cross-platform automation (Okta, Workflows) and scripts (Python/JavaScript). Support SOC 2/PCI/GDPR controls, vendor security reviews, and incident triage.