Senior Software Engineer, Backend

At RigUp, our Engineering teams build the technology powering our next-generation marketplace. We operate in agile, cross-functional teams, working collaboratively to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-impact solutions.
We invest in our people, encouraging career growth and empowering you to shape your own path.
We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to help evolve our platform within a service-oriented architecture. You'll work alongside engineers, product managers, and designers to build and deliver high-value features that drive our business forward.
What you'll be doing
We'll support you as you get up to speed with our teams, product domains, tech stack, and processes-helping you understand how we collaborate and deliver together.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:

• Design, build, and refine the services and domains that power our platform, shaping the core capabilities that enable our product.
• Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to take ideas from concept to delivery-balancing the need for speed with the responsibility to build robust, scalable solutions.
• Contribute to our engineering culture by continuously improving how we work-helping streamline processes, enhance collaboration, and ensure we leave things better than we found them.
• Mentor and support other engineers, sharing your expertise and experience to foster growth within the team.

This role is an opportunity to make a meaningful impact-not just on the codebase, but on how we build, collaborate, and grow as a team.
Our main tech stack includes: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes & Docker, Kotlin, Temporal, SpringBoot, React.js, Typescript, Material-UI, Next.js Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreS and Kafka. If you have production scale experience in a different stack (Go, Java, Python, Scala, C#, etc.) and are interested in moving to a new stack, we should chat!
Who you are
You're a hands-on developer who gets stuck in, you enjoy solving complex problems & building impactful solutions - importantly, you care about making a difference

• Take the initiative to own outcomes from start to finish - knowing what needs to be done within your domain and how we work together to deliver the best solution
• You've a passion for developing your craft - you get what it takes to build quality, robust, and scalable solutions
• You'll see the learning when things don't quite go to plan - not just for you, but how we continuously improve as a team

So, what is important to us
Above all, you'll get stuff done, more importantly, you'll collaborate to do the right things, in the right way to achieve the right outcomes.

• Proficient with a JVM Language (open to Kotlin or Java, Scala, Groovy etc.)
• 5+ years of relevant development experience building production grade solutions
• Delivery focused with solid exposure to SOA and/or Microservices environment
• Practical exposure of CI/CD pipelines for your production services
• Familiarity with cloud service platforms (GCP, or AWS, Azure etc.)
• Experience partnering and collaborating with remote teams (across different time zones)
• Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Cursor) as part of day-to-day workflows to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, and enhance developer productivity.
• Proven track record in learning new technologies and applying that learning quickly

Some of the things that would be nice to have, a plus but not required

• Familiar with containerisation and Kubernetes
• Experience with pub/sub messaging technology like Kafka