Backend Engineer Team Lead - Bloom

Backend Tech Lead

At Sword, we're building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity's full potential. In doing so, we're pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment, not generic technology applied after the fact. As both a clinical-centric frontier AI lab and an applied AI platform, Sword is reimagining how care is delivered at scale, removing traditional barriers like appointments, waiting rooms, and stigma so more people can access the care they need—and ultimately get back to lives lived in full. Since 2020, Sword has expanded across physical therapy, women's health, cardiometabolic, and mental health, and is now moving beyond the session to a fully AI-native, 24/7 care program that brings physical activity, therapeutic exercise, psychotherapy, nutrition, and behavior change into one connected experience. More than 700,000 members across three continents have completed over 10 million AI sessions, helping 1,000+ enterprise clients avoid more than $1 billion in unnecessary healthcare costs. Backed by 42 clinical studies, 44+ patents, and more than $500 million raised from leading investors including Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and Founders Fund, Sword is defining a new standard for healthcare.

As a Backend Tech Lead, you will establish the technical vision and scale the AI-driven infrastructure powering Bloom's real-time clinical care. You will lead and mentor a high-performance engineering team, ensuring excellence through automated pipelines, robust architecture, and continuous skill development. By partnering with Product and Infrastructure teams, you will drive the software lifecycles necessary to expand our care categories across every life stage. Your role balances hands-on technical leadership with a focus on team motivation, performance monitoring, and the recruitment of top-tier talent. Ultimately, you will bridge technical innovation with operational success to keep Bloom at the forefront of accessible health technology.

AI Proficiency at Sword Health

AI fluency is a core expectation at Sword Health. Every candidate is assessed against our three-level framework — be ready to share real examples of how AI is already part of how you work.

• Explorer (Level 1) — Uses AI daily to boost personal productivity
• Builder (Level 2) — Creates workflows and tools that elevate the whole team
• Integrator (Level 3) — Embeds AI into products and processes at scale

Every hire must demonstrate at least Level 1. The expected level will vary depending on the seniority of the role.

What you'll be doing:

• Lead a team, establishing a technical vision, resolving technical disagreements and ensuring the success of delivered solutions.
• Oversee day-to-day operations, delegating tasks and set deadlines/goals.
• Stay up to speed with all web technologies, software architecture principles and design patterns, investing in continual improvements.
• Use appropriate engineering practices, such fully automated development pipelines and testing.
• Understanding the current lifecycle and development of new lifecycles with emphasis on software quality processes.
• Work closely with our infrastructure team and other tech leads to define and improve our software and infrastructure architecture.
• Maintaining a productive and inspiring working environment for development teams, actively participating in the training/building skills, provide coach, monitoring performance, motivating the team, recognize high performance and reward accomplishments.
• Together with the HR team and assisting Hiring Manager, help on R&D process, motivation and retention of new members.

What you need to have:

• Previous experience as a Tech Lead/Team Lead with a focus on mentoring and developing engineering talent.
• Extensive experience (+5 years) with web development.
• Strong experience with our main tech stack (Go and Node.js).
• Strong experience with CI/CD, automated testing strategies, and system observability.
• Strong background in event/microservice architecture.
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills.
• Great time management and organizational skills.
• Proactive attitude, flexible, problem solver and decision maker.
• Quality oriented process, ensuring good code practices.
• People oriented mindset, able to build strong relationships and motivate the team.
• HealthTech/Regulated Industry Experience is a plus.

€50,400 - €79,200 a year

This range includes base, variable and equity. These compensation bands are just the starting point. Once someone joins and proves they're outlier talent, we adjust quickly to ensure their compensation aligns with their impact. Our job titles may span more than one career level. Actual pay is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, location, market demand, and other factors. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base salary and any potential variable, bonus or sales incentives, and the Company's estimation of the value of private company stock options, if applicable. The pay range is subject to change, future value of company stock options is not guaranteed, and compensation may be modified in the future. In addition to our total compensation, Sword offers a number of benefits as listed below.

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

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.