At Intellias, we're always on the lookout for exceptional talent to join our team in Colombia. Over 20 years of market experience, Intellias brings together technologists, creators and innovators in Europe, North and Latin America, and the Middle East. Join our international team and take the mission to solve the advanced tech challenges of tomorrow! If you're enthusiastic about contributing your skills and experience to our organization, we invite you to submit your CV for this position.

What we offer you in Colombia

Indefinite contract with Intellias Colombia SAS, payment in COP

Health, life, funerary and pet insurance for the employee

Extra vacation days

Workation up to 90 day outside Colombia

100% work from home + internet subsidy

100% English environment Must to have

8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, preferably within healthcare interoperability, health data platforms, or HealthTech.

5+ years of practical experience with FHIR, including production implementations; strong knowledge of FHIR R4 is required.

3+ years of technical leadership experience, leading backend, data engineering, or healthcare interoperability teams.

Proven experience designing and operating large-scale, real-time healthcare data exchange solutions.

Deep understanding of FHIR resources, profiles, extensions, terminology, validation, and interoperability patterns.

Strong knowledge of US Core Implementation Guide, USCDI, and the U.S. healthcare interoperability ecosystem.

Hands-on experience integrating multiple EHR/EMR platforms and working with heterogeneous clinical data sources.

Experience implementing Patient Access APIs, Bulk FHIR APIs, or comparable FHIR-based healthcare APIs.

Strong knowledge of SMART on FHIR, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, scopes, and healthcare API authorization patterns.

Solid understanding of HL7 v2.x, including ADT, ORM, ORU or similar healthcare messaging workflows.

Experience with CDA/C-CDA and clinical document exchange.

Strong backend programming skills in Python, combined with production experience in at least one additional modern language such as Java, TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, or C#.

Experience with modern backend frameworks such as Django/FastAPI/Flask,



Spring Boot, Node.js, or .NET Core.

Experience designing scalable REST APIs and data integration services.

Strong knowledge of API security, including OAuth 2.0, JWT, mTLS, API keys, authentication/authorization, and rate limiting.

Hands-on experience with distributed messaging technologies such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, AWS SQS, Azure Service Bus, or equivalent.

Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, or DynamoDB.

Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems using Kubernetes and modern cloud infrastructure.

Strong understanding of healthcare data formats including FHIR JSON/XML, HL7, JSON, XML, and CSV.

Proven ability to establish engineering standards, architecture patterns, and technical best practices across teams.

Strong leadership and mentoring skills with the ability to remain directly involved in architecture and implementation.

Professional English sufficient for direct collaboration with U.S.-based product, engineering, and business stakeholders. Nice to Have

Experience integrating with major U.S. EHR platforms such as Epic, Oracle Health/Cerner, athenahealth, or similar systems.

Practical experience with U.S. national healthcare exchange networks such as Carequality, CommonWell, eHealth Exchange, or TEFCA-based ecosystems.

Understanding of CMS Interoperability and Patient Access regulatory requirements.

Familiarity with ONC certification requirements and related U.S. healthcare interoperability regulations.

Experience processing healthcare data at significant scale — hundreds of thousands or millions of patient records.

Hands-on experience with Apache Spark, Databricks, Prefect, or comparable data-processing/orchestration technologies.

Experience with AWS or Azure cloud-native data and integration services.





Experience designing systems handling PHI and other regulated healthcare data, including HIPAA-related security considerations.

Practical experience applying LLMs or AI-enabled technologies to data engineering, interoperability, or software development workflows.

Experience with AI-assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or comparable platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead the architecture, design, development, and production operation of large-scale healthcare interoperability solutions.

Lead and mentor a team of backend/data engineers responsible for healthcare data pipelines and interoperability infrastructure.

Design and evolve FHIR-based APIs and integration services, including Patient Access, Bulk FHIR, and other healthcare interoperability interfaces.

Drive technical strategy for FHIR R4, US Core, USCDI, SMART on FHIR, and related interoperability standards.

Design scalable real-time data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, validating, and exchanging clinical and healthcare data.

Build and maintain integrations with EHR/EMR systems, HIE/HIN networks, healthcare providers, payers, pharmacies, digital health platforms, wearables, and other healthcare data sources.

Establish reusable architecture patterns, technical standards, and engineering best practices for interoperability solutions.

Contribute directly to production code, architecture prototypes, complex integrations, and technical proofs of concept.

Design and maintain secure healthcare APIs using modern authentication, authorization, encryption, and API security patterns.

Drive technical evaluation and selection of interoperability platforms, frameworks, tools, and technology solutions.

Ensure scalability, reliability, observability, security, and regulatory compliance of healthcare data infrastructure.

Collaborate closely with product, clinical, engineering, security, data, and business stakeholders to translate interoperability requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Coach engineers, conduct technical and architecture reviews, and support professional growth across the team.

📌 Senior Lead Backend EngineerFHIR (Colombia)
🏢 Intellias
📍 Colombia