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Backend Platform Engineer

IQVIA Athens senior full-time

Salary

€40,200 - €60,200 per year

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Description

We are seeking a Backend Platform Engineer to develop fit for purpose backend platforms, data pipelines, orchestration frameworks, and machine learning deployment capabilities that enable digital measurement and AI-driven products.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, test, deploy, and support production-grade systems responsible for data ingestion, feature processing, algorithm execution, model deployment, and scalable delivery of AI/ML capabilities.
  • Develop backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and orchestration frameworks supporting digital measurement and AI-enabled products.
  • Implement production-grade systems for data ingestion, feature processing, algorithm execution, model deployment, and machine learning workflow automation.
  • Collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, machine learning engineers, and architects to translate advanced algorithms into scalable production systems.
  • Build and support backend platforms and automation systems capable of processing complex, high-dimensional data and supporting machine learning workloads at scale.
  • Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and efficiency of backend systems, data pipelines, and machine learning production workflows.
  • Guide testing and validation of services, pipelines, and deployment capabilities to ensure production readiness and operational reliability.
  • Contribute to engineering standards, software quality, code reviews, and platform best practices.
  • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineering team members while contributing as a hands-on individual contributor.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, or related field.
  • 8+ years' experience designing, building, and supporting production-grade backend systems, distributed applications, data pipelines, and machine learning deployment environments.
  • Experience building APIs, backend services, workflow orchestration systems, and scalable data processing applications.
  • Programming experience using Python, Java, C++, or equivalent.
  • Experience deploying and supporting machine learning, data processing, and analytics workloads in production environments.
  • Experience working with cloud-native architectures, Kubernetes-based environments, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software development practices.
  • Experience working with large-scale production systems, cloud environments, and real-world datasets.
  • Experience with software testing, monitoring, observability, performance optimization, and engineering best practices.
  • Experience collaborating across engineering, data science, product, and architecture teams.

Benefits:

  • Competitive salary: €40,200.00 - €60,200.00 per year.
  • Incentive plans, bonuses, and/or other forms of compensation may be offered.
  • A range of health and welfare and/or other benefits.

Skills

Required

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