Full Stack Product Builder

Product Development Engineer

Practice

Michael Baker International's CTO Organization drives enterprise technology strategy, platform innovation, and next-generation product development across the company.

The organization builds cloud-native, scalable, and AI-enabled platforms that serve internal and external stakeholders, with deep expertise spanning full-stack software engineering, data platforms, geospatial and IoT analytics, and modern cloud infrastructure.

The CTO Organization partners with business units including GovTech to architect, develop, and operationalize strategic platforms such as LiveTwin-Michael Baker's branded digital twin solution-ensuring technical excellence, security, observability, and rapid time-to-market.

Engineers in this organization own end-to-end product delivery, from architecture and design through production operations, with accountability for scalability, reliability, and user impact.

What We're Looking For

Michael Baker International is seeking a Product Development Engineer to join the CTO Organization and lead full-stack product development for LiveTwin and related enterprise platforms.

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.

You will report directly to the VP of Technology Products, and operate with full autonomy as a principal-level individual contributor, owning critical platform capabilities spanning frontend, backend, data pipelines, and AI-enabled features.

This role requires U.S.

citizenship; no sponsorship is provided.

What You'll Do


* 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, ev...