FHIR Platform Engineering Lead - HIPAA, AI, AWS

Intellias; Portugal; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Office in Porto

Snacks and drinks

Job summary

Intellias is seeking an Engineering Lead to join a large-scale Digital Health initiative building a FHIR-based healthcare platform that connects providers, payers, clinical systems, and external networks.

This hands-on leadership role combines engineering excellence with team growth, setting technical direction and ensuring secure, HIPAA-compliant solutions. Based in Porto, the role offers a permanent contract and modern office facilities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience including 2+ years in Tech Lead / Engineering Lead roles.
• Experience in Healthcare / HealthTech / Digital Health domain.
• Hands-on experience building systems that handle PHI under HIPAA requirements, with PHI-safe practices and audit logging.
• Hands-on experience with FHIR R4 and healthcare interoperability standards.
• Strong Python and/or Node.js/TypeScript production experience.
• Experience designing and operating distributed, high-scale systems (APIs, data pipelines, event-driven with Kafka).
• Security focus: OAuth 2.0 / OIDC, JWT.
• SQL and NoSQL data modeling and schema evolution.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor engineers through design reviews and code reviews.
• Set technical direction and drive architecture decisions across components and teams.
• Own reliability, security, data quality, observability, and SLAs.
• Build and operate FHIR-based APIs and data platforms.
• Collaborate with US-based stakeholders and product teams.

Skills

HIPAA compliance

FHIR R4

Python

Node.js/TypeScript

Kafka

Leadership

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

Kubernetes

OAuth/OIDC

SQL/NoSQL

English B2+

Data pipelines

Databricks

AI in dev

Tools

Docker

Databricks

Kafka

Airflow/Prefect

CI/CD

Terraform

Spark

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Intellias is seeking an Engineering Lead to join a large-scale Digital Health initiative building a FHIR-based healthcare platform that connects providers, payers, clinical systems, and external networks.

This hands-on leadership role combines engineering excellence with team growth, setting technical direction and ensuring secure, HIPAA-compliant solutions. Based in Porto, the role offers a permanent contract and modern office facilities.