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BGBx

Healthcare consultancy translating science into stories

API Engineer

Backend EngineeringUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timePortugal€50k - €60k /yrIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience building production APIs and backend services.
  • Strong experience with at least one modern backend language, ideally Python or TypeScript.
  • Solid understanding of API design using technologies such as REST and GraphQL.
  • Hands-on experience with authentication and authorization in production systems.
  • Experience designing APIs or services used by more than one application, team, or type of consumer.
  • Strong SQL skills and a good understanding of data modeling.
  • Good understanding of application and API security principles.
  • Experience working with modern data-access, API, or semantic-layer technologies.
  • Ability to reason about technical trade-offs and communicate them clearly.
  • Comfort working across application, data, and platform concerns rather than within a narrowly defined backend stack.
  • Hands-on experience with the Ximosing framework.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build APIs consumed by multiple applications and services.
  • Develop reusable platform capabilities rather than one-off integrations.
  • Build and maintain APIs for business logic, data access, and analytical use cases.
  • Design secure authentication and authorization patterns for different types of consumers.
  • Implement fine-grained access controls and help define clear trust boundaries between systems.
  • Build custom services where standard or generated API tooling is not sufficient.
  • Work closely with application and product teams to turn different requirements into coherent platform capabilities.
  • Help establish API standards around contracts, error handling, versioning, reliability, performance, and security.
  • Monitor and troubleshoot production APIs and improve their performance and maintainability.
  • Contribute to APIs and platform capabilities that support emerging AI-driven use cases.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience building internal platforms or shared developer infrastructure.
  • Experience with identity and access management systems.
  • Familiarity with fine-grained or policy-based authorization models.
  • Experience with analytical or semantic data layers.
  • Familiarity with APIs or data-access patterns designed for AI-enabled applications.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure, continuous integration and continuous delivery, and observability.

About the Company

BGBx

Healthcare consultancy translating science into stories

BGBx is a healthcare consultancy that helps pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies turn scientific advances into practical, credible brand stories and strategies. Its services include medical communications to explain science clearly, market access planning to help products reach patients, and payer strategy to work with insurance decision-makers. The work is done by a team that combines clinical knowledge, academic insight, and industry experience, and is delivered through project-based engagements that aim for real-time, real-world impact. Unlike firms that rely on generic marketing, BGBx differentiates itself with a strong, multidisciplinary medical team and a clear focus on translating science into strategies that improve access and outcomes. The company’s goal is to help clients communicate complex science effectively while shaping reimbursement and market access to bring new therapies and devices to patients more efficiently.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2014

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