Job Description
Title: Staff Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer
Employment: Contract-to-Hire (C2H)
Location: Plano/Frisco, TX preferred (Draper, UT | Columbus, OH | Chadds Ford, PA | Wilmington, DE | NYC/Manhattan.) candidates near other client locations may also be considered
Role Overview
We are looking for strong Software/Platform Engineers at multiple levels who have a solid software engineering background with a primary focus on backend development (approximately 70%), along with frontend development and experience working with AI-enabled engineering solutions.
This is not a Cloud Infrastructure or Terraform-focused role. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on engineer who can design and build scalable applications, improve engineering and operational efficiency, automate software releases, and contribute to platform architecture.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain scalable backend and full-stack applications.
- Work across backend and frontend technologies, with a strong emphasis on backend engineering.
- Design and develop APIs, SDKs, reusable frameworks, shared services, and web components.
- Contribute to platform engineering and software architecture at the appropriate level.
- Automate software releases and improve the overall SDLC.
- Drive improvements in engineering productivity and operational efficiency.
- Apply AI tools and AI-enabled engineering practices to development and automation.
- Work with AIDLC (AI Development Life Cycle) and modern AI engineering approaches.
- Collaborate on architecture, technical design, development, and engineering best practices.
- Work with Cloud technologies, preferably AWS, although Azure or GCP experience is also acceptable.
- Implement and improve DevOps and CI/CD processes.
Software Engineering
- Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals.
- Strong backend development experience.
- Full-stack development experience with frontend exposure.
- Experience with one or more languages such as Java, Python, Go/Golang, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
- Experience building APIs, SDKs, reusable components, or shared services.
- Platform Engineering experience.
- Software architecture and technical design experience.
- Experience developing scalable and reusable engineering solutions.
- Staff-level candidates should have strong architecture and technical leadership experience.
- Experience using AI tools in software development or engineering.
- Experience with AI-enabled development, automation, GenAI, LLMs, AI agents, agentic workflows, RAG, MCP, or similar technologies is a plus.
- Any relevant hands-on AI tool experience can be considered.
- Cloud experience with AWS preferred; Azure or GCP is also acceptable.
- DevOps and CI/CD experience.
- Experience automating releases and improving development/release processes.
A Cloud Certification is required for conversion to FTE.
Preferred certifications include:
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Google Cloud Digital Leader
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Plano, TX |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Company Size | 1 to 9 employees |
| Year Founded | 2016 |
| Website | https://www.shglobalsolutions.com |
About Company
SH Global Solutions is a certified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) headquartered in Maryland. Established in 2016 to modernize commercial and government technology to mitigate cybersecurity threats and to secure data centers from increasingly more frequent cyber attacks, we specialize in providing Information Technology (IT) solutions and services to government and commercial organizations. Our core areas of core expertise are focused in:
● Datacenter consolidation/optimization - this includes designing, procuring, and installing turnkey secure, modern infrastructure solutions including scalable and modular systems
● Professional program and project management services for large and complex projects
● In-building wireless solutions to enable 5G technology and connect to the growing Internet of Things (IoT)
Our team is comprised of highly skilled and dedicated professionals, uniquely qualified in cutting-edge technology, and engineering, and in the rapid deployment and implementation of new technologies. Our CEO is a retired United States Air Force Colonel and entrepreneur with over 25 years supporting the DOD, US Government agencies, and NATO worldwide.
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