Senior Backend Engineer (Python/Django) – AI & Gait Analysis

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/.