Backend Engineer Team Lead (HealthTech)

TL;DR

Backend Engineer Team Lead (HealthTech): Leading and mentoring a high-performance engineering team, establishing the technical vision and scaling the AI-driven infrastructure powering Bloom’s real-time clinical care with an accent on automated pipelines, robust architecture, and continuous skill development. Focus on bridging technical innovation with operational success to keep Bloom at the forefront of accessible health technology.

Location: Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.

Salary: €50,400 - €79,200 a year

Company

hirify.global is building AI to heal billions and unlock humanity’s full potential, pioneering AI Care, a fundamentally new approach to healthcare built for medical reasoning, safety, and real-time treatment.

What you will do

• 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.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team and other tech leads to define and improve software and infrastructure architecture.
• Maintain 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.

Requirements

• 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 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.

Nice to have

• HealthTech/Regulated Industry Experience is a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Meal allowance
• Equity shares
• Remote work allowance
• Flexible working hours
• Discretionary vacation