Founding Engineer – Data Platform

🔥 15 minutes ago

🌐 Brazil, Colombia, +3 more countries – Remote

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇨🇴 Colombia – Remote 🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote 🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote 🇨🇱 Chile – Remote

💵 $95k - $120k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🚰 Data Engineer

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WhyHireWrong?

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1 - 10 employees

👥 HR Tech

🎯 Recruiter

☁️ SaaS

HR Tech • Recruitment • SaaS

WhyHireWrong? is a hiring and recruitment platform that appears to provide a web-based portal for employers and applicants to manage projects, applications, and user logins. The site references project listings, an application/login flow for existing users, and is powered by a technology layer (SIGL:IO), indicating a software-first delivery model. Contact details are provided, suggesting a service-oriented offering to connect candidates with roles or help organizations streamline hiring.

📋 Description

• Design and build a high-volume event-driven data platform from scratch • Ingest and process millions of events into a lakehouse architecture • Transform and standardize clinical data into FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) format • Build and maintain PostgreSQL and MongoDB systems at scale • Work directly with external hospital IT teams to gather technical requirements and integrate with legacy infrastructure • Build developer-facing public APIs for external clients • Own the full stack from event ingestion through serving data to external clients and internal analytics • Use AI coding tools daily to accelerate development

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently operating as an individual contributor shipping production code • Proven experience designing and building high-volume event-driven architectures or event bus patterns • Production experience with PostgreSQL and MongoDB at scale, handling millions of records • Professional-level fluency in both Portuguese and English • Experience with large-scale, heavy data systems in production • Based in Latin America, or exceptional cases in Europe with willingness to work LATAM hours and travel occasionally • Must be a hands-on individual contributor; not recently transitioned into pure management or director roles