{"id":1437199,"url":"https://alion.io/job/mbakerintl-full-stack-product-builder","title":"Full Stack Product Builder","company":{"id":1874372,"name":"Michael Baker International","domain":"mbakerintl.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/mbakerintl","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Oracle","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":60,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"Frontend","role_family":"Frontend","seniority":"staff","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Newark, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":{"min":150000,"max":175000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":175000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":".NET","optional":false},{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure AKS","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Cosmos DB","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Databricks","optional":false},{"name":"Digital Twin","optional":false},{"name":"LLM","optional":false},{"name":"Node JS","optional":false},{"name":"OpenAI","optional":false},{"name":"PostgreSQL","optional":false},{"name":"Prompt Engineering","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"RAG","optional":false},{"name":"React.js","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"Semantic Search","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":true},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":true},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-07-20T19:00:44Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-07-20","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T00:23:47Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":72,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":72},"description":"Candidates will be required to complete identity verification and one face to face interview at one of our offices nationwide.https://mbakerintl.com/locations/\nThis position operates on a remote work schedule in the United States.\nNo sponsorship is provided for this role; all candidates must be eligible to work for any employer in the United States without restrictions indefinitely.\nProduct Development Engineer\nPractice\nMichael 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.\nWhat We're Looking For\nMichael 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.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn 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.\nLead 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.\nDesign and implement event-driven microservices and data integration patterns, ensuring idempotency, resilience, and observability across asynchronous workflows and cross-platform data flows.\nBuild 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.\nArchitect 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.\nDevelop 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.\nEstablish and maintain production observability across distributed systems using APM, structured logging, and metrics collection; define SLIs/SLOs and drive incident response and reliability improvements.\nCollaborate with product, design, and business stakeholders to translate market requirements and customer feedback into technical architecture and prioritized delivery roadmaps.\nChampion 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.\nOwn the operational excellence of deployed systems, including capacity planning, cost optimization, security compliance, and disaster recovery readiness.\nWhat You Need to Succeed\nRequired:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; or equivalent hands-on experience demonstrating mastery across multiple technology domains.\n10+ 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.\nAdvanced proficiency in PostgreSQL or similar relational databases, with experience designing schemas, optimizing queries, and managing distributed data systems at scale.\nHands-on experience building and deploying event-driven microservices architectures using message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar) and cloud-native patterns.\nProven 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.\nStrong communication and collaboration skills with demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams, articulate technical decisions, and translate business needs into technical strategy.\nProduction 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.\nPreferred:\nExperience building or scaling SaaS or PaaS products from early-stage through production maturity.\nExpertise in .NET/C# backend development or microservices architecture.\nProduction experience with Azure cloud services, including AKS, Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory, or Azure OpenAI.\nGeospatial or location-intelligence platform development, including GIS APIs, spatial databases, or mapping libraries (ESRI, MapBox, Azure Maps, or similar).\nLeadership experience establishing engineering standards, code review practices, or mentoring senior engineers.\nExperience with AI-assisted development, prompt engineering, or evaluating LLM-generated code in production systems.\nSecurity and compliance expertise relevant to government or enterprise SaaS environments.\nCompensation\nThe 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.\nWhy Choose Us\nMedical, dental, vision insurance \n401 (k) Retirement Plan \nHealth Savings Account (HSA) \nFlexible Spending Account (FSA) \nLife, AD&D, short-term, and long-term disability \nProfessional and personal development \nGenerous paid time off \nCommuter and wellness benefits \nTHIS POSTING IS FOR A CURRENT VACANCY AND MICHAEL BAKER INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY December 15, 2026.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6885,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Retirement plans","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cybersecurity","Government","Professional Services"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T03:47:58Z"}],"liveness":{"score":9,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.318,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":71,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:1","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-30T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":175000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/mbakerintl-full-stack-product-builder","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/mbakerintl-full-stack-product-builder.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T04:19:17Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3639,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":1361,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}