Product + Platform Engineering Services

Product engineering focuses on creating software products that solve user needs (both customer and internal teams). It demands expertise in user-facing technologies and close collaboration with product managers, with success measured by feature quality, usability and adoption. 

Platform Engineering is about building the underlying systems, infrastructure, services and tools that enable scalable, secure and reliable product delivery. Its “customers” are internal developers. 

The disciplines are complimentary.  

If your bottleneck is meeting customer demands, achieving product–market fit or delivering new, high-quality features, focus on product engineering. 

If you’re facing slow deployment speeds, inconsistent development environments or security issues due to fragmented systems, platform engineering should be your priority.

Absolutely. Material can take your idea from concept to MVP and beyond. We help validate ideas, design intuitive user experiences, choose the right cloud-native architecture and build scalable, secure solutions ready for launch. The result: faster time-to-market and a clear roadmap for continuous product evolution. 

Learn more about our strategies for accelerating innovation in product engineering. 

Your internal teams know your business, and Material brings deep expertise across cloud, data and AI. When you partner with us, our strengths complement your in-house teams to deliver faster outcomes, reduce risk and build a stronger foundation for future innovation. 

Material handles both greenfield product builds and legacy platform modernization by understanding your business objectives. For new builds, we work closely with you to define goals, create a roadmap and develop your digital product or platform from the ground up. For legacy platforms, we start by understanding your existing business goals, then audit your current systems, identify pain points, plan improvements and modernize step-by-step for better security, scalability and value.   

In both cases, our approach uses modern architectures, cloud-native tools and thoughtful planning to future-proof your investments. No matter the scenario, our team customizes the process for your business goals and handles all aspects from discovery to deployment. 

Material builds vendor-agnostic solutions using industry-standard, open-source technologies and containerization strategies that allow services to run across different environments without vendor dependency. 

When the chosen stack requires vendor-specific capabilities, we architect clear abstraction layers and use infrastructure-as-code to isolate dependencies. This approach reduces switching costs, simplifies future migrations and ensures you maintain full control over your technology decisions.