Remote Full-Stack Platform Engineer, Inspection Platform

NXTGEN Industries; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NXTGEN Industries is seeking a Full-Stack Platform Engineer to build and maintain the NXTGEN inspection platform, the system operators use to configure missions, review findings, and act on inspection data. This product-facing role spans web frontend, backend APIs, and data ingestion from field systems.

You will work on mission management, inspection history, defect reporting, and analytics dashboards, design real-time APIs, data ingestion pipelines, and scalable PostgreSQL schemas, with cloud

Qualifications

• 3+ years of full-stack web development in production.
• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript with Node.js backend and React frontend.
• Experience designing PostgreSQL schemas for complex data.
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Understanding of WebSocket or real-time data patterns.
• Experience with REST API design and integration with third-party systems (EAM, CMMS, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the operator-facing web platform: mission management, inspection history, defect reporting, and analytics dashboards.
• Design and implement backend APIs that serve real-time and historical inspection data to operators.
• Build data ingestion pipelines that receive, validate, and store inspection data from field devices.
• Design database schemas optimised for inspection data queries — asset trees, finding timelines, comparison views.
• Collaborate with robotics and computer vision teams to define the data contracts between field systems and the platform.
• Own reliability, performance, and observability of the platform in production.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

Node.js

React

PostgreSQL

Cloud platforms

WebSocket

REST API

Job description

NXTGEN Industries is seeking a Full-Stack Platform Engineer to build and maintain the NXTGEN inspection platform, the system operators use to configure missions, review findings, and act on inspection data. This product-facing role spans web frontend, backend APIs, and data ingestion from field systems.

You will work on mission management, inspection history, defect reporting, and analytics dashboards, design real-time APIs, data ingestion pipelines, and scalable PostgreSQL schemas, with cloud