Backend Engineer Team 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.
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.
Today, 1 in every 3 women suffer from a pelvic‐health disorder and Bloom is here to change that.
Sword Health developed Bloom to connect millions of women with accessible pelvic‐health care, using the most innovative technology available today.
Bloom includes customized guidance from Pelvic Health Specialists, an intra‐vaginal biofeedback device, and a mobile app to track real‐time results and progress.
Women meet with Pelvic Health Specialists remotely and progress through the program from the comfort of home, on their own time.
Starting with pelvic health and now expanding into menopause, fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum care, Bloom is powered by the same AI Care model driving Sword's platform: a continuous interaction between the member, an AI health specialist (Phoenix), and a human clinician.
To get to know more about our Tech Stack, check here.
AI Proficiency at Sword HealthAI 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 setting 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 as fully automated development pipelines and testing.
Understand 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.
Maintain a productive and inspiring working environment for development teams, actively participating in training/building skills, coaching, monitoring performance, motivating the team, recognizing high performance and rewarding accomplishments.
Together with the HR team and assisting the 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.
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