Payments-as-a-Service platform for embedded financial services
Rainforest operates a PaaS model for embedded payments, targeting vertical software platforms that want to offer payment capabilities without building or licensing infrastructure in-house. The stack (Ruby on Rails, Go, Vue, PostgreSQL, AWS EKS) reflects a platform built for production scale, while active projects around AWS infrastructure scaling, EKS optimization, and CI/CD design signal ongoing work to support growing transaction volume. Hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering and product, with senior-focused hiring suggesting deeper architectural or product work rather than team expansion.
Rainforest provides embedded payment processing for software platforms, positioning itself as an alternative to both lightweight referral partnerships and in-house payments infrastructure. The company targets vertical SaaS and platform companies seeking to offer payments to their merchants without the compliance, operational, or capital burden of becoming a payment facilitator themselves. The product is delivered as white-label, low-code integration technology with embedded reporting and merchant underwriting tailored to platform customers. Rainforest is based in Atlanta and currently operates a lean, 11–50 person team headquartered in the United States, with active hiring concentrated in engineering and product roles.
Ruby on Rails, Go, Vue, PostgreSQL, AWS (RDS, Aurora, EKS), Terraform, GitLab, Prometheus, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry for observability.
Atlanta, Georgia. The company is privately held and employs 11–50 people.
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