Staff 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 Staff 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 will 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 Staff Software Engineer you will:

• Lead the design, build and delivery of the services, applications and domains that power our platform - shaping the capabilities across our platform ecosystem
• Provide technical leadership, leading by example both within your team/domain and across our organisation
• Exert your passion and thinking to shape the technical direction of our product & platform domains - using best of breed languages, frameworks and technologies
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to take ideas from concept to delivery - balancing the desire to ship code with the responsibility to get it right
• Contribute to our culture improving how we deliver as an organisation - helping us to leave things better than we find them & making it easier for all of us to get stuff done
• Support, coach and mentor Engineers across our organisation - sharing your insight, knowledge and experience as we learn & grow together

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 lead by example in 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.)
• 7+ years of relevant development experience building production grade solutions
• Hands-on knowledge building on cloud service platforms (GCP, or AWS, Azure etc.)
• Delivery focussed with solid exposure to SOA and/or Microservices environment
• Experience partnering and collaborating with remote teams (across different time zones)
• Practical experience leveraging AI-assisted and agentic 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