Senior Backend Engineer — Real-Time, Cloud-Native Microservices

Abbott; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 70.000 - 110.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Lingo is building a cutting-edge digital health platform in Madrid. We seek a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, build, and optimize scalable backend systems, APIs, and data integrations across our global deployments.

You will work with Product, Mobile, Platform/SRE, and Data/ML teams to deliver reliable cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and uphold HIPAA/GDPR compliance and security standards.

Formación

• 5-8 years of backend engineering experience with distributed, cloud-native systems.
• Strong microservices architecture and API design (REST; GraphQL/gRPC is a plus).
• Production Kubernetes experience and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
• Hands-on proficiency with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Programming expertise in Java, Kotlin, Python.
• Knowledge of HIPAA, GDPR, or similar compliance and secure coding practices.
• Solid understanding of performance optimization, scalability patterns, and async data processing.
• Strong collaboration and communication across engineering and product teams.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs for real-time biosensor data processing.
• Implement event-driven integrations with messaging/streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and analytics pipelines.
• Collaborate with SRE to ensure observability, performance, and reliability.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews, defining service boundaries and data models.
• Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
• Uphold privacy-by-design and security standards (HIPAA/GDPR).
• Write clean, testable code and maintain engineering standards.
• Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming.
• Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and post-mortems.

Conocimientos

Microservices

API design

Kubernetes

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Java

Kotlin

Python

HIPAA/GDPR

Performance optimization

Async data processing

Cloud-native services

Collaboration

Herramientas

Terraform

Helm

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Descripción del empleo

Lingo is building a cutting-edge digital health platform in Madrid. We seek a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, build, and optimize scalable backend systems, APIs, and data integrations across our global deployments.

You will work with Product, Mobile, Platform/SRE, and Data/ML teams to deliver reliable cloud-native services, mentor engineers, and uphold HIPAA/GDPR compliance and security standards.