Senior Backend Engineer, Consumer Growth

Sword Health is shifting healthcare from human-first to AI-first through its AI Care platform, making world-class healthcare available anytime, anywhere, while significantly reducing costs for payers, self-insured employers, national health systems, and other healthcare organizations. Sword began by reinventing pain care with AI at its core, and has since expanded into women’s health, movement health, and more recently mental health. Since 2020, more than 700,000 members across three continents have completed 10 million AI sessions, helping Sword's 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid over $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies and over 44 patents, Sword Health has raised more than $500 million from leading investors, including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, Transformation Capital, and Founders Fund. Learn more at www.swordhealth.com.

What you'll be doing:

• Stay up to speed with all web technologies, software architecture principles and design patterns;.
• Understanding the current lifestyle and development of new lifecycles with emphasis on software quality processes.
• Actively participate in the training and building skills of other web developers.
• Continuous monitoring of performance on production environments.
• Create and run load tests, and analyze applications’ performance.
• Develop our professional web-based app with an emphasis on rich interaction and responsive design.
• Develop analytics dashboards and web data visualization tools.
• Work closely with our clinical team to determine the ideal workflow of the system from the user’s perspective.

What you need to have:

• Extensive experience (5+ years of experience) with web development (experience with Golang or/and NodeJS are mandatory).
• Knowledge of SQL language and managing SQL databases (experience in NoSQL databases a plus).
• Ability to write high-performance, reusable code.
• Knowledge of Software Engineering patterns with special focus on Web Services development.
• Knowledge of caching software like Memcached or Redis are a plus.
• Knowledge of continuous integration / deployment process and tools.
• Excellent communication skills, problem solving and proactive attitude.
• Good level of written and technical English.
• You should know how to design and implement AI-powered workflows or automations that meaningfully improve efficiency and outcomes.
• AI coding agents experience is required.
• Spec driven development is valued.
• Proficiente coding agent usage is valued.

To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:

• A stimulating, fast-paced environment with lots of room for creativity;
• A bright future at a promising high-tech startup company;
• Career development and growth, with a competitive salary;
• The opportunity to work with a talented team and to add real value to an innovative solution with the potential to change the future of healthcare;
• A flexible environment where you can control your hours (remotely) with unlimited vacation; 
• Access to our health and well-being program (digital therapist sessions);
• Remote or Hybrid work policy (Portugal only);
• To get to know more about our Tech Stack, check here.

EUR 46,900 - 73,700 a year

Portugal - Sword Benefits & Perks:

• Health, dental and vision insurance

• Meal allowance

• Equity shares

• Remote work allowance

• Flexible working hours

• Work from home

• Discretionary vacation

• Snacks and beverages

• English class

Note: Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.

Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.