Sr Platform Engineer - Backend

Overview

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Job Description:

Baker Tilly is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer - Backend to join the founding team of the firm's AI Product Group (APG), supporting the development and operation of shared platform services that power AI applications and intelligent agents across the organization. This hands-on engineering role is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable, secure, and reliable backend services, APIs, runtime components, and integration capabilities that support both internally developed and third-party AI solutions. The position plays a critical role in establishing foundational platform capabilities, including identity and access management, enterprise data connectivity, telemetry, and production infrastructure, while ensuring solutions are flexible, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise technology standards.

As an early member of the AI Product Group, this individual will collaborate closely with platform leadership, enterprise architects, AI engineers, data platform teams, and globally distributed technical teams to develop production-ready services that enable the firm's expanding AI ecosystem. The role emphasizes strong backend engineering fundamentals, hands-on development, security, evaluation-driven engineering, and end-to-end ownership of production systems. The ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience building and operating shared services, implementing authentication and authorization ca