Senior Data Engineer

Summary

Join Sword Health, a Forbes Best Startup Employer, and contribute to our mission of freeing two billion people from pain. We are a rapidly growing AI-powered healthcare company with a $3 billion valuation. As a Data Engineer, you will design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines, architect and maintain our data warehouse, and work with complex data architectures. You will collaborate closely with our Algorithms and AI teams, supporting their data and pipeline needs. This role offers a stimulating environment, career development, competitive salary, flexible hours, unlimited vacation, and access to our health and well-being program. We offer a remote or hybrid work policy (Portugal only). Relocation assistance is not provided; candidates must have a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.

Requirements

• Strong experience with Python programming language
• Previous experience in Software Engineering is considered
• Very high level of SQL and data modelling expertise
• Knowledge about other database types, like NoSQL databases is considered
• Experience in cloud-based architectures, such as GCP and AWS
• Experience with orchestration frameworks like Apache Airflow
• Proactivity and capability of proposing improvements to the team, being technical improvements or processual improvements

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain ETL/ELT data pipeline that ingests data from multiple sources with different technologies (MySQL, BigQuery, Cloud Storage, CSV, FHIR, JSON, etc.)
• Architect and maintain Sword’s (complex) data warehouse; We own lots of different types of data
• Work with complex data architectures, like Kappa and lambda architectures. You’ll have the opportunity to work with batch and/or streaming processes
• Have the opportunity to work with some of the most exciting and newest technologies in the data field
• Work closely with our Algorithms and AI teams, supporting their needs for data and pipelines

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of Data Governance
• Experience with Modern Data Stack such as DBT , Bigquery
• Experience with Kafka Ecosystem. E.g. Kafka, Kafka Connect, Schema Registry and others
• Experience with IaC (Terraform), Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD
• Capable of Zooming out and being able to propose changes to data architecture

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)
• 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