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Peter Doyle

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Vacancy details

Software Engineering

Python Engineer

Principal

Canada,

Colombia,

United States

Remote

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Dive deep into Digital! For 20 years Intellias has been developing top-tier digital solutions for the world’s leading companies, keeping them in line with the latest technology trends. Join in and provide innovations for the future!

What project we have for you

Our client is a global leader in innovative health solutions, focused on delivering cutting-edge treatments and consumer wellness products. This project supports the client’s digital transformation efforts by architecting and developing scalable, cloud-native data platforms and applications. The work is part of a broader initiative to modernize healthcare delivery through real-time data integration, AI readiness, and secure, high-performance backend systems built on AWS.

Project Scope
The selected engineer will lead the design, development, and deployment of backend microservices and data pipelines, enabling large-scale consumer-facing platforms and clinical data applications. The tech stack includes AWS Lambda, Python, DynamoDB, Glue, Airflow, and event-driven architectures. Responsibilities span hands-on development, performance optimization, and cloud automation via Terraform and CI/CD pipelines. Collaboration with cross-functional teams and a commitment to agile practices are critical for success in this role.

What you will do

• Own and deliver software architecture, diagrams, design documents
• Estimate engineering effort, plan implementation and roll out applications with cross-functional impact
• Own the continuous improvement and fine-tuning of API and data pipeline performance, scalability, and security
• Independently design, code, and test major features, as well as work jointly with other team members to deliver complex changes.
• Creates tests and contributes to the development of CI/CD pipelines
• Participate in several cross-functional roles on small, highly productive Agile scrum team
• Proficient in agile development methodologies
• Expected to deliver consistently with little supervision
• Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications and data pipelines
• Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
• Establish long term and evolving bug fixing solutions, improving application and data pipeline performance
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
• Design, build, and maintain scalable and robust data pipelines using AWS Glue, Apache Airflow, and other relevant AWS services.
• Develop, optimize, and maintain ETL processes for various data sources.
• Implement data quality checks and monitoring to ensure data integrity.
• Collaborate with data scientists and analysts to understand data requirements and deliver appropriate data solutions.

What you need for this

• 4-year degree preferred; relevant experience will be considered
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• 5+ Years of leading engineering or R&D teams focused on building Cloud-native applications and data solutions
• 5+ years of Back-end experience: Python, JSON, REST, Microservices, DynamoDB, NoSQL
• 4+ years of AWS Lambda or any cloud functions technology is a must
• Expert level experience in building cloud services. You have experience developing scalable, high-performance, and operable cloud services.
• Expert level experience developing backend applications and data processing solutions using Python or NodeJS.
• Demonstrated expertise managing complex integration solutions, such as APIs, and data integration layers (Batch & Real-Time).
• Proven ability to define and implement effective software development methodologies
• Experience developing large-scale consumer-facing micro-services solutions is highly recommended
• Experience working with AWS services like API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, SNS, Cognito, Glue, and Airflow (MWAA)
• Experience with automating complex services on AWS using Terraform, Serverless, or another infrastructure/application framework as part of a CI/CD pipeline strategy
• Strong preference for someone with experience creating event-driven architectures
• Proficiency in Python and PySpark for data manipulation and transformation.
• Experience with data warehousing concepts and technologies.
• AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate or higher

Bonus Qualifications/Experience

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform
• Gitlab CI/CD with focus on CI/CD for AWS serverless deployments
• Experience with other data orchestration tools.
• Knowledge of data governance and security best practices.

What it’s like to work at Intellias

At Intellias, where technology takes center stage, people always come before processes. By creating a comfortable atmosphere in our team, we empower individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve extraordinary results. That’s why we offer a range of benefits that support your well-being and charge your professional growth.
We are committed to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion as an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without discrimination based on race, color, religion, age, gender, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
We welcome and celebrate the uniqueness of every individual. Join Intellias for a career where your perspectives and contributions are vital to our shared success.