AI Native Founding Product and Platform Engineer

We're reimagining a legacy system from the ground up.As the Founding Product & Platform Engineer, you'll define the architecture, tooling, engineering culture and development practices behind the next generation of SGS digital products. You'll be equally comfortable designing distributed systems, building customer-facing experiences, creating cloud platforms and writing production code.This is not a traditional architect role. We are looking for a builder.You'll lead by example, making key technical decisions through hands-on delivery rather than governance. You'll help create the products that drive business impact while establishing the platform capabilities, reusable services and engineering standards that allow a small team to deliver at scale.If you're excited by greenfield environments, ambiguity, ownership and the opportunity to shape something from day one, we'd love to hear from you.The MissionYour dual mission is to:Build exceptional digital products:Lead the architecture and delivery of our most ambitious customer-facing solutions, owning everything from frontend experiences to backend services and cloud infrastructure.Build the engineering platform behind them:Create the tooling, deployment pathways and reusable building blocks that allow engineers to move quickly, safely and independently.As successful patterns emerge, you'll transform them into shared capabilities that accelerate delivery across the organisation.Key ResponsibilitiesLead 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 standardsMultiply 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.