Senior Backend Engineer

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Remote
Department: Backend Engineering
Reports to: Backend Engineering Lead

About Rise

Risevest is a digital wealth management company helping individuals across Africa build long-term wealth through expert-managed investment portfolios. With a mission to make investing simple, transparent, and accessible, Risevest empowers users to grow and preserve their wealth through global and local asset classes. We are a certified Great Place to Work 2025, with a culture of innovation, excellence, and impact.

About the Role

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Backend Engineer who enjoys building high-quality, reliable systems at scale. You’ll play a key role in designing, shipping, and maintaining backend services that power Rise’s products, while upholding strong standards for code quality, performance, and real-world impact.

What you'll Do:

• Collaborate with cross-functional product teams to design and build backend features
• Build, maintain, and improve scalable backend services, systems, and infrastructure
• Own features end-to-end across the product lifecycle: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• Improve system performance, reliability, and developer experience
• Contribute to technical discussions, code reviews, and architectural decisions

What We Are Looking For:

• 4+ years of professional software development experience, with at least 3 years using Node.js
• Strong experience building data-driven, distributed systems
• Proficiency with our stack: TypeScript, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, and Kubernetes
• Previous experience working in the Financial Services industry.
• Previous experience with collaborating in an Agile remote environment.
• Previous experience working with Kafka or similar (we use NATS).

You’ll Thrive in This Role If:

• For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck.
• You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You're not just going after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line.
• You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad.
• To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go.
• You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real-time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed.
• For you, work isn't a solo endeavor. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.
• You know how to remain productive while working remotely. You've mastered synchronous and asynchronous communication in a remote environment
• You are of high agency, taking the ownership mindset with your work, willing to use creative execution to get over problems as you face them.

Why Rise?

• Opportunity to drive meaningful impact across a fast-growing pan-African fintech.
• Competitive compensation.
• Flexible work setup and supportive, mission-driven culture.
• Health insurance, paid time off, pension contributions, parental leave, and learning opportunities.
• Work with a team obsessed with excellence, transparency, and innovation.
  
  

Rise is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.