Engineering Lead, HealthTech Data & FHIR Platform

Intellias; España; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the architecture of a US-based digital-health platform. You will lead backend, data, and platform efforts, ensuring PHI-safe design and interoperability via FHIR. The role emphasizes Python/TypeScript, distributed systems, and strong security practices.

You will guide architectural decisions across components, mentor engineers, and advance AI-assisted development while maintaining compliance with HIPAA and industry standards.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience in backend, data, or platform roles.
• 2+ years in Tech Lead / Engineering Lead capacity.
• Hands-on PHI-safe engineering and audit logging under HIPAA.
• Experience with FHIR R4 and US Core/HL7 lineage.
• Proficiency in Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript in production.
• Designing and operating large-scale, distributed systems with APIs and data pipelines.
• Strong reliability, error handling, retries, data quality, and observability.
• API security knowledge: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT.
• SQL and NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution.
• Cloud-native environments (AWS/Azure), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Build/operate a FHIR server (R4/R4B) and related APIs.
• Transform and migrate HL7 v2, C-CDA to FHIR as needed.
• Engage in master patient index, MPI, and patient matching tasks.
• Participate in data lake/warehouse tasks using Databricks or Spark.
• Contribute to payer data exchanges and interoperability projects.
• Lead design reviews, code reviews, and cross-team architecture decisions.
• Mentor engineers and promote knowledge sharing.
• Develop LLM-based capabilities for clinical data processing.

Skills

Tech Lead

Healthcare domain

PHI handling

FHIR

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

Cloud native

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Security

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Intellias is seeking a senior engineering leader to drive the architecture of a US-based digital-health platform. You will lead backend, data, and platform efforts, ensuring PHI-safe design and interoperability via FHIR. The role emphasizes Python/TypeScript, distributed systems, and strong security practices.

You will guide architectural decisions across components, mentor engineers, and advance AI-assisted development while maintaining compliance with HIPAA and industry standards.