Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django) – AI & Gait Analysis
- OPED GmbH
- Deutschland
- Homeoffice / Mobil
- Vollzeit
Welcome to the OPED Group
We are more than 1.000 employees throughout Germany who are united by one interest: the desire to think ahead in healthcare – innovatively and humanely. We offer you a network of opportunities – from medical technology and wound care to digital patient solutions and personal care in medical supply stores.
At O-DHS, we combine technical expertise with medical progress – for solutions that improve lives.
We continue to grow and are looking for a
Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django) – AI & Gait Analysis
Your Task
- Take technical leadership of the backend for our native app for AI-supported gait analysis, shape its technological direction, and play a key role in architectural decisions while building secure, scalable, and maintainable backend systems using Python and Django.
- Establish and continuously improve technical standards, best practices, and sustainable development processes across the backend.
- Design and integrate DiGA-specific interfaces, external healthcare systems, third-party services, and APIs, and translate complex requirements into implementation-ready development tickets.
- Strengthen technical quality across the team through code reviews, mentoring, and knowledge sharing, while driving the continuous improvement of automated testing, CI/CD, monitoring, and release processes.
- Translate regulatory, data protection, and cybersecurity requirements into robust technical solutions and shape technical decisions in close collaboration with Product Management, Quality Management, Regulatory Affairs, and Development.
- Create technical and regulatory documentation and support audits, security assessments, penetration tests, and approval processes.
Your Qualifications
- At least 6 years of professional software development experience, including experience in a senior or technical leadership role, with proven experience in medical software, digital health applications, or software as a medical device.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Python and Django, as well as solid experience with PostgreSQL, REST APIs, and modern authentication and authorization concepts; experience with React or comparable modern frontend technologies is a plus.
- Deep understanding of robust software architectures, scalable systems, secure coding, and sustainable technical solutions, combined with experience in CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and code reviews.
- Knowledge of MDR, GDPR, BSI, data protection, and cybersecurity, ideally complemented by experience with DiGA-specific processes and integrations with external healthcare systems.
- Independent working style and strong technical ownership, with the ability to support, mentor, and develop other engineers.
- Excellent English communication skills, with German skills being an advantage.
Our Offer
At OPED-Digital Health Solutions (O-DHS), we offer flexible working hours, options for 100% remote working, and a high degree of personal responsibility. We work in an interdisciplinary, appreciative team on innovative digital health solutions that have a real impact on patient care. Our corporate culture promotes openness, independence, and the freedom to organize your work according to your own ideas. You can choose from a wide range of additional benefits tailored to your individual life situation.
Salary and that's it? Not at O-DHS!
MIXIT - DAS WORK LIFE BENEFIT PROGRAMM
- Flexible working hours
- Vacation on top
- Health management
- Shares
You can learn more about us and our benefits on our homepage: en.o-dhs.com/ueber-uns/.
You have these qualifications, the drive to evolve and enjoy becoming a supporting part of our future? Great. We should get to know each other!
Your Contact
We look forward to receiving your application and are always happy to answer any questions you may have.
If you have any questions, please contact:
- Lisa Ernst
- +498024/60818-341
