Platform Architect

An excellent opportunity for an experienced Platform Architect or Technical Lead looking to take ownership of a greenfield platform that will form the foundation of the company’s future B2B products.

This company has tripled its revenue over the past few years and is currently at Series A, with plans to secure Series B funding and grow by 50% next year. They are looking for a hands-on technical leader who thrives in a fast-paced, high-performance engineering environment.

In this role, you’ll lead the design and development of a new shared platform that will underpin the company’s future B2B products. You’ll take ownership of key technical operations while remaining hands-on, working primarily with Go to build a cloud-native platform for appliance-based deployments. You’ll join a team of eight engineers within a broader engineering organisation of around 35 people. The team is based in New York, however both hybrid and remote working is available.

The ideal candidate will be a Platform Architect with an extensive software engineering background. You will have strong Go expertise, experience building complex distributed systems, and a deep understanding of cloud-native architectures. Previous experience working in high-growth or startup environments beneficial.

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone looking to make a significant technical impact, own a business-critical platform, and help shape the future direction of a rapidly growing company.

The Role:

• Define and drive the long-term architecture for a shared, extensible platform serving multiple market-focused products.
• Modernise legacy products by extracting and transforming shared services to reduce complexity and improve maintainability.
• Ensure the platform is scalable, secure, transparent, and production-ready within a highly regulated federal environment.
• Partner with cybersecurity and compliance teams to align with frameworks such as FedRAMP 20x and NIST RMF.
• Extract and integrate AI capabilities into the shared platform for reuse across products.
• Make high-impact technical decisions in ambiguous, fast-paced environments.
• Improve developer productivity through automation, tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Advise executive leadership on technical strategy, architecture, and key trade-offs.

• Strong software engineering experience working with Go.
• Previous experience working in startup or high-growth environments.
• Proven track record of designing and scaling complex distributed systems.
• Strong backend engineering expertise across APIs, microservices, data pipelines, or platform architecture.
• Experience working across both legacy systems and greenfield development.
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience working within or alongside cybersecurity, compliance, or other regulated environments.
• Demonstrated ability to make and own high-stakes architectural decisions.

Salary & Benefits: $200k-250k base, cash bonus, equity, plus medical and dental insurance, The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.