Ōura
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SeniorBackendEngineer,ContextHub
“Senior Backend Engineer, Context Hub at Ōura. Skills: Data infrastructure, Event-driven architectures, Data transformation, AWS. Design foundational data infrastructure. Design data transformation pipelines”
Industry & Context.
systems design instincts; resilience; failure modes; focus on the hard problems
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5+ years building and operating production data systems at scale in Python, Experience designing event-driven architectures, Deep experience with data transformation pipelines, technical grasp of AWS ecosystems, A data-model-first mindset, Experience building shared platforms or APIs, systems design instincts, Excellent communication
Nice to Have
FastAPI, AWS Lambda Powertools, Background in health data, wearables, FHIR/SNOMED/ICD, A privacy-first approach to engineering, solid understanding of the best practices for handling sensitive data (PHI/PII), Building infrastructure that feeds data to/from LLM-powered services, Familiarity with feature stores, embeddings, vector databases, Experience in building efficient, scalable database schemas, query optimization, Infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK, Pulumi), Observability tooling: Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Experience in globally distributed teams working asynchronously across time zones, Commitment to continuous learning
What You'll Do.
Design foundational data infrastructure
Design data transformation pipelines
Architect event-driven ingestion
Define flexible data models
Build multi-consumer APIs
Operate and design data storage
Own production quality end-to-end
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate effectively in a globally distributed, diverse, and cross-functional team; Work with product teams; Collaborate across different teams; Work with product team; Work with product team; Work with product team; Work with product team; Work with product team
Communication Scope
Excellent communication; explain your thinking before acting; ask incisive questions upfront; articulate trade-offs clearly
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