About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Founding Engineer (Data Platform) based in Brazil.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a high-volume, event-driven data platform from the ground up.
- Develop systems capable of ingesting and processing millions of clinical events through a lakehouse architecture.
- Transform and standardize clinical information into FHIR format.
- Build, operate, and maintain PostgreSQL and MongoDB systems handling millions of records.
- Work directly with external hospital IT teams to integrate the platform with legacy healthcare infrastructure.
- Design and build developer-facing public APIs.
- Own the technical stack across the full data lifecycle.
- Remain hands-on in production development.
- Use AI coding tools as part of the daily engineering workflow.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Proven experience designing and implementing high-volume event-driven architectures.
- Professional production experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB at scale.
- Demonstrated experience building and operating heavy-data systems in production.
- Ability to take significant architectural ownership while remaining hands-on.
- Experience with complex data environments, integrations, or legacy infrastructure is valuable.
- Professional-level fluency in both Portuguese and English.
- Based in Latin America (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, or Chile preferred).
- Hands-on engineer actively shipping production code.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with external technical stakeholders.
Conditions
- Annual salary of $95,000–$120,000.
- Fully remote from eligible locations in Latin America.
- Founding-level ownership of a foundational data platform.
- Work with millions of clinical events and production data systems.
- Direct collaboration with hospital IT teams.
- AI-enabled development environment.