Senior Backend Engineer - Data Platform
Sword HealthPorto, Portugal
Posted January 8, 2026
45090 - 71672 EUR
Full Time
About the Company
Sword Health delivers an AI‑powered care platform that blends artificial intelligence with clinical expertise to improve access, outcomes, and cost in healthcare. The company offers digital and virtual physical therapy, predictive pain management, and operational optimization tools, all supported by an FDA‑listed device and real‑time biofeedback. Its distinctive value lies in 24/7, hyper‑personalized treatment programs that free clinicians to focus on nuance and empathy while generating significant cost savings—over $1 billion for more than 2,000 global clients. Sword Health’s culture is mission‑driven, backed by top investors, and focused on making AI‑enabled care universally available to every patient.
Job Description
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. The Platform Team is building the infrastructure that makes this possible, high-performance APIs enabling self-service data access for clinical, operations, and AI teams.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Go
- Proven track record building production-grade REST or gRPC APIs
- Solid understanding of Kafka including producers, consumers, partitioning strategies, and at-least-once/exactly-once semantics
- Experience with relational databases (MySQL or PostgreSQL)
- Understanding of API security, authentication, and rate limiting patterns
- Experience working in regulated or compliance-sensitive environments (healthcare, fintech, or similar)
Benefits
- 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
