Full Stack Product Builder

About the role

The CTO Organization at Michael Baker International drives enterprise technology strategy, platform innovation, and next-generation product development across the company. This role involves owning end-to-end product delivery, from architecture and design through production operations, with accountability for scalability, reliability, and user impact.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product development across the full technology stack, including React and Node.js frontend and backend services, PostgreSQL and distributed data stores, Databricks data pipelines, and AI/agentic systems.
• Lead architectural decisions for scalable, cloud-native platform components, establishing clear service boundaries, API contracts, and deployment patterns that enable rapid feature velocity and operational reliability.
• Design and implement event-driven microservices and data integration patterns, ensuring idempotency, resilience, and observability across asynchronous workflows and cross-platform data flows.
• Build and optimize high-performance user interfaces using React, applying modern performance engineering techniques including code splitting, lazy loading, bundle optimization, and CDN strategies to achieve production-grade Core Web Vitals and user experience standards.
• Architect and deploy data pipelines using Databricks medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, and asset-bundle deployment patterns, ensuring data quality, security, and accessibility for analytics and AI workloads.
• Develop AI-enabled and agentic product features using semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and large language models, with attention to access control, evaluation frameworks, and production observability.
• Establish and maintain production observability across distributed systems using APM, structured logging, and metrics collection; define SLIs/SLOs and drive incident response and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate market requirements and customer feedback into technical architecture and prioritized delivery roadmaps.
• Promote best practices across the technology stack including CI/CD automation, infrastructure-as-code, security hardening, and code quality tooling; mentor and elevate engineering standards across teams.
• Own the operational excellence of deployed systems, including capacity planning, cost optimization, security compliance, and disaster recovery readiness.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; or equivalent hands-on experience demonstrating mastery across multiple technology domains.
• 10+ years of professional software development experience with demonstrated expertise in full-stack product delivery, including frontend (React or equivalent modern frameworks), backend services (Node.js, .NET, or similar), and data systems.
• Advanced proficiency in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, with experience designing schemas, optimizing queries, and managing distributed data systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience building and deploying event-driven microservices architectures using message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) and cloud-native patterns.
• Proven ability to architect and own large-scale systems end-to-end, with clear judgment on trade-offs between performance, scalability, maintainability, and time-to-market.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams, articulate technical decisions, and translate business needs into technical strategy.
• Production experience with at least one of the following: Databricks, big data platforms, or advanced data pipelines; OR agentic AI systems, semantic search, or RAG implementations.

Preferred

• Experience building or scaling SaaS or PaaS products from early-stage through production maturity.
• Expertise in .NET/C# backend development or microservices architecture.
• Production experience with Azure cloud services, including AKS, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, or Azure OpenAI.
• Geospatial or location-intelligence platform development, including GIS APIs, spatial databases, or mapping libraries (ESRI, MapBox, Azure Maps, or similar).
• Leadership experience establishing engineering standards, code review practices, or mentoring senior engineers.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, or evaluating LLM-generated code in production systems.
• Security and compliance expertise relevant to government or enterprise SaaS environments.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
Professional and personal development
Generous paid time off
Commuter and wellness benefits

Pay

The approximate compensation range for this position is $150,000 to $175,000. This compensation range is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation is dependent upon factors such as education, qualifications, experience, skillset, and physical work location.

Schedule

This is a remote-primary role with occasional office presence (approximately one day per month) and quarterly travel for cross-functional alignment, client engagement, and strategic planning sessions.

Qualifications

U.S. citizenship is required; no sponsorship is provided.

Skills

Full-stack product delivery expertise
Advanced proficiency in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
Hands-on experience with event-driven microservices architectures
Production experience with Databricks, big data platforms, or advanced data pipelines
Experience with AI-assisted development, semantic search, or RAG implementations
Leadership experience in engineering standards, code review practices, or mentoring senior engineers
Security and compliance expertise relevant to government or enterprise SaaS environments

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision insurance
401(k) Retirement Plan
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Life, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability
Professional and personal development
Generous paid time off
Commuter and wellness benefits

Why Choose Us

Micheal Baker International is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We provide equal employment opportunity for all persons, in all facets of employment. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing and background checks. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply for any open position for which they feel they are qualified and all will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, familial status, pregnancy or childbirth, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, status with regard to public assistance, or membership or activity in a local human rights commission, or any other legally protected status. EEO is the Law. Applicants to and employees of Michael Baker International are protected under Federal law from discrimination.

About Us

Michael Baker International, a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management, has been solving some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges for more than 85 years with a legacy of expertise, experience, innovation and integrity. Based in Pittsburgh and with over 100 offices nationwide, we partner with clients on everything from roads, bridges, tunnels, mass transit, and airports, to water treatment plants, arctic oil pipelines, environmental restoration and specialized overseas construction. We serve as a trusted adviser to the communities we serve, making them safer, more accessible, more sustainable and more prosperous. We provide visionary leadership in facilitating transformational change for our clients. Our work delivers differentiating innovations and dedicated experts who challenge the status quo and share a world of diverse experience and an impassioned entrepreneurial spirit. We deliver quality of life. We Make a Difference.