Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SGS is a global testing, inspection, and certification company. The Founding Product and Platform Engineer will lead the architecture and hands-on delivery of customer-facing digital products while building the cloud platform, tooling, reusable services, and engineering practices that enable scalable development.
Responsibilities
- Lead by Building: Act as the technical lead on our most important initiatives, architecting through code and setting the standard for engineering excellence
- Own the Full Stack: Design and develop solutions across frontend, backend, cloud infrastructure and deployment pipelines
- Build the Paved Road: Shape our platform (CI/CD, Kubernetes, IaC, observability) so other engineers ship faster and more safely
- Turn Solutions into Reusable Capabilities: Identify successful patterns and convert them into shared services, frameworks, libraries and architectural standards
- Multiply Velocity: Continuously remove friction from the development lifecycle through automation, standardisation and thoughtful platform design
- Mentor and Influence: Partner with engineers, product leads and designers to raise technical standards and encourage a culture of pragmatic, high-quality delivery
Skills
- Expert-level React/TypeScript on the frontend, and deep experience building distributed backends in Go, Python, or TypeScript
- Hands-on, architectural-level experience with a major cloud (GCP, AWS) and Terraform
- Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD pipelines built from scratch (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
- Proven ability to design scalable, resilient and observable systems
- Experience working closely with Product and Design teams to deliver solutions that users genuinely value
- Practical understanding of monitoring, tracing, testing and operational excellence, including tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Jaeger
- You have 10+ years of experience, with strong backgrounds in both product engineering and platform/SRE work
Benefits
- Opportunity to work with a global leader in inspection, verification, testing, and certification.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Benefits package.
- Opportunities for professional growth and development.
- Open, friendly, and supportive culture that thrives on teamwork.
- Endless opportunities to learn, grow your expertise, and fulfill your potential.
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