Senior Platform Engineer — Scalable Backend (Remote)

Rise Technical; United States; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

401k

Healthcare insurance

PTO

Job summary

Rise Technical is seeking a senior platform/backend engineer for a fully remote US role to influence architecture and scale high-impact systems. You will design and build scalable backend services, define API and data boundaries, and deploy cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Collaborate with ML and data teams, mentor engineers, and drive code quality through reviews. The role emphasizes hands-on development with technical leadership to guide compute-heavy workloads in

Qualifications

• Senior backend engineer with hands-on development and architectural influence.
• Experience designing distributed systems and cloud architectures.
• Proven expertise with Python web frameworks.
• US citizenship or green card required.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable backend systems and microservices.
• Define architecture across APIs, data models, and service boundaries.
• Develop cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Work with ML and data teams to deploy compute-heavy workflows into production.
• Lead code reviews and mentor engineers.

Skills

Python

Django

FastAPI

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

Rise Technical is seeking a senior platform/backend engineer for a fully remote US role to influence architecture and scale high-impact systems. You will design and build scalable backend services, define API and data boundaries, and deploy cloud-native infrastructure using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes.

Collaborate with ML and data teams, mentor engineers, and drive code quality through reviews. The role emphasizes hands-on development with technical leadership to guide compute-heavy workloads in