Senior Backend Engineer, Consumer Growth
Sword Health · Engineering · Senior · 26d ago
Open to candidates across Europe.
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Open to candidates across Europe.
“Remote - Europe”
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- Contractor / B2B
- No mention of hiring international contractors or invoicing.
- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
- No company-paid get-togethers mentioned.
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About the role
As a Senior Backend Engineer in Consumer Growth at Sword, you will build and scale backend services and APIs that drive member acquisition, onboarding, subscriptions, and retention. Collaborating closely with Product, Design, Data, Marketing, and mobile engineering teams, you will turn growth opportunities into reliable product features through rapid experimentation, robust payment integrations, and dependable event instrumentation.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate backend services and APIs supporting the consumer journey across web, Android, and iOS.
- Build subscription and payment capabilities, including checkout integrations, purchase-to-account linking, entitlements, and lifecycle events.
- Enable targeted experiences and controlled experiments using feature flags, cohort targeting, and experiment assignment.
- Implement trustworthy event instrumentation and integrations to analyze acquisition funnels and customer behavior.
- Improve system performance, data consistency, payment correctness, and failure recovery across critical consumer journeys.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate development while ensuring code security, correctness, and maintainability.
What you bring
- Demonstrated experience building and operating production backend services with strong TypeScript proficiency.
- Solid foundations in API design, relational data modeling, database management, and automated testing.
- Clear understanding of distributed systems and asynchronous processing, including idempotency, retries, and data consistency.
- Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation systems, tracing, and metric diagnostics.
- Practical experience utilizing AI tools within an engineering workflow and critically assessing their output.
- Fluent written and spoken English.
About Sword Health
Sword Health is a pioneer in AI-driven healthcare, combining clinical expertise with applied frontier AI to deliver physical therapy, mental health, and chronic care programs globally.
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