Senior Backend Engineer - Data Platform

Sword Health is a high-tech startup company that is shifting healthcare from human-first to AI-first through its AI Care platform. The company is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Data Platform to design and build high-performance APIs in Go or Typescript, starting with Publish API, then Serving API and Jobs API.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Go
• TypeScript experience valued for specific platform components
• 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