About Atacana

Atacana Group, Inc. is a global competitive strategy and intelligence consulting organization focused on the healthcare industry. We build and operate our own AI-powered intelligence platform, Avizum, used daily by professionals at large pharmaceutical companies. This role sits on that product team.

Why join our fast-growing team?

• Build real AI, not demos: AI systems running in production against proprietary data — with real users and feedback.
• Work that matters: The decisions our platform informs shape how treatments are developed and positioned for patients.
• Results driven: We measure output, not hours worked. Flexible hours allow us to balance work and life.
• Freedom of location: Enjoy 100% remote work in a globally distributed team.
• Diverse and global team: Our members are located across 4 continents and 15+ countries.
• Growth mindset: We stay close to the latest research, share learnings, and encourage ongoing development.

The role in one paragraph

We are building the next generation of our platform, responsible for acquiring diverse media content, ensuring quality, and supporting various downstream services. This hands-on engineering role demands collaboration with AI/ML, backend, and infrastructure teams.

What you’ll own

You will build the system that converts messy web data into reliable, citable resources for healthcare professionals and researchers.

• Own the crawler and extraction fleet: Design and operate a portfolio of crawlers and extractors across multiple sources.
• Keep extraction alive as the web evolves: Implement monitoring, alerting, and self-healing strategies.
• Turn any format into structured data: Handle HTML, PDFs, images, audio and video.
• Ensure data quality as SLOs: Develop validation contracts to maintain reliability.
• Ship changes with evidence: Use evaluation harnesses and regression suites for improvements.
• Own the data platform end to end: Focus on boundaries, data ownership, and efficient pipelines.
• Make spoken content first-class: Process audio and video to enrich the corpus.

What we expect at this level

We expect you to elevate team standards by mentoring engineers, translating business intent into technical plans, and leaving a lasting impact beyond your immediate projects.

What we’re looking for

If you meet most of the essentials below and are missing one or two, we would still like to hear from you.

Data extraction & crawling at scale

• Essential: Experience building and operating non-trivial crawler fleets.
• Hands-on knowledge of politeness, rate limiting, proxy management, and more.
• Familiarity with parser drift and document content extraction.
• Awareness of data source compliance and licensing issues.
• Also valuable: Experience in audio/video processing and OCR technology.

Software engineering & architecture

• Essential: 7+ years in production software delivery and architectural ownership.
• Expert Python skills and strong API design.
• Experience in system decomposition and mature software practices.

Distributed systems

• Essential: Understanding of distributed system fundamentals.
• Experience with message brokers and task orchestration.

Applied AI

• Essential: Hands-on delivery of LLM-based systems.
• Able to evaluate and consider the cost/benefits of model integration.

Ways of working

You should be investigative, able to isolate defects, and prioritize tasks effectively with excellent communication skills in English.