Full Stack Engineer, Platform Reliability

Full Stack Engineer, Platform Reliability

About Sperry:

Sperry Rail is on a mission-critical journey to revolutionize the Rail Flaw Detection industry. Through the continuous development of cutting-edge diagnostic technologies and AI-assisted analysis, we are transforming railway safety worldwide. Our global engineering teams work collaboratively to develop step-change technologies that define Sperry as the unparalleled market leader.

For nearly a century, we have repeatedly modernized and improved rail diagnostics through our relentless pursuit of improvement. Determined is an understatement. We are obsessed with advancing science and raising the bar on what’s possible with our ever-improving suite of products and service offerings.

Emboldened through the shared values of honesty, accountability, passion, integrity, and teamwork, we are driven by the challenge and bridging concepts with fruition. Each technologist entering Sperry imprints themselves into our brand and further galvanizes a culture of innovation and advancement. Allow us to be clear, Thought Leaders are welcome!

We are agile and hungry and invite those with similar passions to join us in challenging the status quo and bringing new ideas to the market. Fast-paced, high-touch with a distinct sense of purpose. We offer more than a job; we offer an opportunity to be part of something different.

Role Summary

We are hiring a versatile Full Stack Engineer to build and run the platform behind Sperry's inspection products. You will work across the stack – Python services and AWS infrastructure at the back, React at the front – moving between projects as priorities shift, and you will own the reliability and resilience of what we ship alongside the features you add to it.

We have put build and run in the same seat on purpose. The engineers who keep a platform dependable are the ones closest to how it is actually used, and that puts you in front of the analysts, inspection engineers, and customers who depend on it daily. You will triage the interesting problems, work them to root cause, help specify the changes that stop them recurring, and then build those changes.

It is the fastest way to learn a genuinely complex domain, and it carries real influence over where the product goes next.

What We Expect From You

We expect an exceptional level of drive and ambition. You think beyond today's work to what the team and organization need next, champion bold ideas, and see them through. Your hunger is infectious – it inspires those around you to aim higher. You should be someone who puts the team first. You share credit openly, admit when you are wrong, and welcome feedback as an opportunity to grow.

You are comfortable saying "I don't know" and asking for help when needed. Strong interpersonal skills are important for this role. You should have good instincts for working with different people, listen actively, navigate disagreements constructively, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. You should be comfortable working independently on most tasks, planning your own work within a sprint or project, and making sound day-to-day decisions without needing approval.

You will seek input on significant design or architectural choices but otherwise operate with autonomy. This work rewards a particular temperament. You stay calm when a production system is misbehaving, you are methodical about finding the actual cause rather than the first plausible one, and you write down what you learned so the next person does not have to rediscover it.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain backend services, APIs, and microservices using Python
• Build and maintain frontend applications and user interfaces using React
• Design and…