Founding Product & Platform Engineer — Build the Core Platform

SGS; Bloomfield (NJ); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Professional growth and development

Job summary

SGS is seeking a Founding Product & Platform Engineer to define the architecture, tooling, engineering culture and development practices behind the next generation of SGS digital products. You'll design distributed systems, build customer-facing experiences, cloud platforms and production code.

This role is hands-on and builder‑focused: you’ll lead by example, delivering early, shaping platform capabilities, reusable services and engineering standards for a small, high‑velocity team.

Qualifications

• Expert-level React/TypeScript on the frontend and distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS) and Terraform; architect with it.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience designing scalable, observable systems with quality monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and delivery of customer-facing solutions across frontend and backend.
• Build the engineering platform, tooling, deployment pathways and reusable building blocks.
• Shape CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC and observability to accelerate delivery.
• Mentor engineers, partner with product and design to raise technical standards.

Skills

Full Stack

React/TypeScript

Go/Python/TS

Cloud & IaC

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Observability

Product Mindset

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

Job description

SGS is seeking a Founding Product & Platform Engineer to define the architecture, tooling, engineering culture and development practices behind the next generation of SGS digital products. You'll design distributed systems, build customer-facing experiences, cloud platforms and production code.

This role is hands-on and builder‑focused: you’ll lead by example, delivering early, shaping platform capabilities, reusable services and engineering standards for a small, high‑velocity team.