Senior Backend Engineer - Remote

Overview

Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain as the world’s first and only end-to-end platform to predict, prevent and treat pain.

In Short

• Stay up to speed with all web technologies, software architecture principles and design patterns.
• Understand 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.

Requirements

• Extensive experience (5+ years) 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.

Benefits

• 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.