Backend Engineer Team Lead - Bloom
Sword Health
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
50400 - 79200 EUR a year