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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Backend & Platform Engineer - **Company:** IntelliProve - **Location:** Gent, Belgium - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Computing Platforms, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Relational Databases, DevOps, Django Web Framework, Github, Python (Programming Language), Key Management, PostgreSQL, MySQL, OAuth, Prometheus, WebSocket, Datadog, Circleci, AWS Cdk, Pulumi, Flask (Web Framework), Software Security, Indexer, Backend, Fastapi, Amazon Relational Database Service, Gitlab-ci, Front End Software Development, Api Design, Restful APIs, Terraform, Docker - **Published:** August 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobinhoreca.com/job/viewjob/3074504/backend-platform-engineer.html ## About the Role * Several years of professional experience in backend and/or DevOps engineering at a medior level (3-6 years), or equivalent practical experience with a relevant educational background. This is deliberately an all-rounder medior role. We are not looking for a deep backend specialist nor a dedicated DevOps engineer * Strong experience with Python and a modern REST framework. We use FastAPI on PostgreSQL; equivalent experience (Django, Flask) is fine if you know the framework you've worked with deeply * Comfort with REST API security and authentication (OAuth2/JWT) * Solid experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred; MySQL acceptable) * Hands-on DevOps on a major cloud. We use AWS (ECS, ELB, S3, RDS, EC2, CloudFront); equivalent experience on GCP or Azure is fine as long as you understand the same building blocks * Real experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code. Terraform preferred; Pulumi or AWS CDK equally welcome. You've actually shipped IaC in production, not just consumed it * Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerised deployments. We use GitHub Actions and Docker; equivalent experience (GitLab CI, CircleCI) is fine. You've built or maintained a pipeline end to end * Solid engineering hygiene and a security-by-design reflex Nice to have * Observability and reliability tooling: Datadog, OpenTelemetry, Posthog, Prometheus * Healthcare or regulated-software exposure: IEC 62304, ISO 27001, GDPR, or general healthcare data handling * Experience with real-time or WebSocket workloads. Our face-scan pipeline is WebSocket-based * Threat modelling, dependency scanning and secrets management beyond the basics, Practical details Working language is English; Dutch is preferred. The role is based at our Ghent office and requires the right to work in Belgium. ## Description IntelliProve builds a software platform that turns a face video into vital signs. The work ahead is to make the backend and cloud infrastructure behind that platform genuinely production-grade. Reliable enough to carry medical traffic, traceable enough to pass an audit, and ready to scale with the product. This role owns the Python/FastAPI backend and the AWS infrastructure that make that possible. Working at IntelliProve At IntelliProve we're making proactive and preventive health monitoring effortless, turning a short face video into objective vital-signs data for both consumer apps and clinical tools. We're a 14-headed team in Ghent building two products on the same rPPG technology: a consumer wellbeing app that's live today, and a medical device heading for CE marking. Working on both in parallel keeps us close to real users and real regulators at the same time. Feedback loops are short, and decisions get made by the people doing the work. We value ownership, curiosity and clarity. People at IntelliProve take responsibility for what they ship from design through deployment, ask questions instead of guessing, and prefer clear, maintainable solutions over clever ones. You'll work side by side with engineers, ML researchers and regulatory colleagues, and your input will shape how the platform evolves. The role at a glance * Full-time role, open to a freelance arrangement * Shared ownership of the backend platform and cloud infrastructure * Close collaboration with our CTO, ML engineers, frontend engineer, QA lead and customer-facing integrations * Direct impact on a Class IIa medical device heading for CE marking * Ghent office, up to 2 days remote per week What you'd be working on Backend & APIs * Build and maintain Python/FastAPI services on PostgreSQL. Clean API design, sensible error handling, sane pagination * Own authentication and authorisation flows (OAuth2/JWT) and the API security hardening that goes with them * Design relational database schemas that make queries simple, and reason about indexing and migrations as the platform grows * Contribute to backend features that support the WebSocket-based face-scan pipeline used by both products Cloud infrastructure & deployments * Maintain and extend our AWS infrastructure (ECS, ELB, S3, RDS, EC2, CloudFront) using Terraform * Own the CI/CD pipelines on GitHub Actions end to end - build, test, deploy * Containerise services with Docker and keep deployments boring * Improve observability across the stack (logs, metrics, traces) so we know what's happening in production before users do Reliability & compliance * Bring production-grade engineering discipline to the medical pipeline * documentation, traceability, validation * Apply security-by-design across both products, especially where backend code touches medical data * Take operational ownership of what you ship ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Keeping applications secure by evolving OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100152-keeping-applications-secure-by-evolving-oauth-2-0-and-openid-connect) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Enabling automated 1-click customer deployments with built-in quality and security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/83-enabling-automated-1-click-customer-deployments-with-built-in-quality-and-security) - [Coding for Good: Achieving social change with an app](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1645-coding-for-good-achieving-social-change-with-an-app) ## Related Articles - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [The 7 Most Popular Backend Frameworks for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/403-the-7-most-popular-backend-frameworks-for-developers)