Senior Backend/ Data Engineer

NOWATCH is an Amsterdam-based health innovation company for the curious. We're searching for a passionate and talented Senior Backend Developer to design, develop, and maintain our core infrastructure, ensuring it’s robust, highly available, and capable of processing large volumes of sensitive health data daily while adhering to strict compliance standards.

Requirements

• Over 3 years of professional experience in Backend or Full-Stack Development, with at least 1 year focused specifically on large-scale data engineering projects.
• Expert proficiency in Python
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Deep experience with message queuing and stream processing platforms (Kafka, RabbitMQ, Kinesis) and big data processing frameworks (Apache Spark, Flink, or similar).
• Strong operational knowledge of AWS, including managed services for computing, database, and data warehousing.
• Expertise in performance tuning and schema design for both relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, DynamoDB, MongoDB).
• Demonstrated experience in applying data privacy principles (e.g., encryption, tokenization, PII handling) and a solid understanding of regulatory frameworks like HIPAA, and GDPR.

Benefits

• Work experience in a global Startup Tech company with room for personal development
• The chance to be part of a young and ambitious team of internationals
• A broad scope of responsibilities through which you can learn and expand your skill set
• Apple MacBook
• NOWATCH of choice
• Flexible working hours
• Location of Amsterdam with ability to work partly from home
• Great team, culture and place to work with quarterly team days