Platform Engineer - Full-Stack

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain the web app: React dashboards, workflow screens, configuration/admin interfaces
• Deliver high-quality UX: responsive layouts, consistent UI patterns, accessibility basics, performance tuning
• Implement interactive data experiences: charts, tables, filters, drilldowns, exports
• Integrate with REST APIs and external services: auth flows, request/response mapping, error handling, retries, timeouts
• Contribute to API design patterns: consistency, pagination, versioning, idempotency, rate-limit awareness
• Build/maintain integration-heavy workflows: webhooks, event-driven patterns, background processing
• Support platform hardening: auditability, reliability, security posture, operational readiness
• Contribute to data layer evolution and migration planning (e.g., MongoDB → PostgreSQL): schema thinking, migration strategy, integrity and performance considerations
• Support cloud migration readiness (AWS/Azure): environment management, secrets, deployments, observability basics
• Assist with edge/security tooling where relevant (e.g., Cloudflare)

Requirements

• Strong React experience shipping SaaS product UI (dashboards/workflows), modern hooks patterns
• Strong JavaScript (ES6+) and professional engineering practices (Git, PRs, reviews)
• Confident integrating REST APIs in production: auth patterns (JWT/OAuth-style), robust loading/error states
• Solid UI engineering capability: componentization, responsive CSS, UI consistency and polish
• Good backend fundamentals: can read/write server code, reason about data models, collaborate on API contracts

Preferred Qualifications

• TypeScript (or strong willingness to work in a TS migration)
• Experience with a modern backend runtime (Node.js/Express preferred)
• Data-heavy applications: charts, analytics, reporting, admin tooling
• Database competence: SQL fundamentals (PostgreSQL preferred), schema/index basics, query performance awareness; familiarity with MongoDB/document modeling concepts
• State/data fetching patterns: React Query / TanStack Query (or equivalent)
• Testing discipline: unit/integration testing (Jest/RTL; Playwright/Cypress a bonus)
• CI/CD familiarity and environment separation (dev/stage/prod)

Benefits

About the Company

Our client is building a governance, privacy, and AI compliance platform for regulated organizations. They already have a working MVP and are now scaling into production pilot deployments and an enterprise-ready phase.