The Role
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize data reporting, and collaborate with teams to enhance data accessibility and drive business decisions.
Summary Generated by Built In
Sword Health is on a mission to free two billion people from pain.
With 67% of members achieving a pain-free life and a 70% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using AI Care to change lives, and save millions for our 25,000+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $400 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.
Recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2025, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020, but we’ve also created a remarkable mission and value-driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $4 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we’re looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our global impact.
Joining Sword means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to “do it for the patients” every day, and to always “deliver more than expected” on behalf of our members and clients.
This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside 1000+ (and growing!) talented colleagues, spanning three continents. Your charge? To help us build a pain-free world, powered by AI, enhanced by people — accessible to all.
At Sword Health, data is at the core of our mission to build a pain-free world. Our Data Team plays a central role in enabling a truly data-driven organization, ensuring that every decision is guided by reliable, actionable insights that directly impact millions of lives worldwide.
As an Analytics Engineer, you will bridge the gap between data engineering and data analytics, transforming data into scalable, trusted models that power business decisions and advanced analytics. You’ll play a key role in building our semantic layer, ensuring consistency of metrics across the company, and optimizing data pipelines and reporting. By doing so, you will empower teams across Sword to drive both innovation in healthcare and operational excellence.
What you’ll be doing:
- Design and maintain data pipelines, transforming raw data into clear, actionable insights using dbt and other tools.
- Build and optimize LookML models in Looker to ensure efficient, scalable, and user-friendly reporting.
- Write high-performance SQL for development, operational efficiency, and cost optimization.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering and other teams to identify opportunities, propose solutions, and implement technical improvements.
- Use Git for version control, deployment, and collaborative development in an agile environment.
- Develop and maintain a semantic layer to improve AI functionality and enhance data accessibility.
- Ensure consistency of metrics across the model, avoiding multiple definitions and logics for the same KPI, while aligning data models and transformations with both business objectives and analytical needs.
- Collaborate closely with Data Analysts and business stakeholders, ensuring that data models and definitions directly support decision-making needs and analytics workflows.
What you need to have:
- Strong proficiency in SQL.
- Hands-on experience with dbt and BigQuery.
- Ability to develop LookML models in Looker.
- Proactive mindset to identify, propose, and implement both technical and process improvements.
- Experience working in challenging and fast-paced business environments, with the ability to adapt data solutions to evolving needs.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively with Data Analysts, business stakeholders, and engineering peers.
- Solid understanding of Git for code versioning and collaboration.
What we would love to see:
- Experience with GCP or AWS data infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with Airflow
- Knowledge of data governance best practices.
- Working knowledge of Python.
- Experience with semantic layer design and implementation to enhance AI functionality and improve data accessibility for analytics and machine learning.
To ensure you feel good solving a big Human problem, we offer:
- 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.
- To get to know more about our Tech Stack, check here.
Portugal - Sword Benefits & Perks:
• 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
Note: Please note that this position does not offer relocation assistance. Candidates must possess a valid EU visa and be based in Portugal.
Sword Health complies with applicable Federal and State civil rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of Age, Ancestry, Color, Citizenship, Gender, Gender expression, Gender identity, Gender information, Marital status, Medical condition, National origin, Physical or mental disability, Pregnancy, Race, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, and Veteran status.
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
BigQuery
Dbt
GCP
Git
Looker
Python
SQL
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The Company
What We Do
SWORD Health is the world’s fastest growing virtual musculoskeletal (MSK) care provider, on a mission to free two billion people from chronic and post-surgical pain. The company’s clinical-grade virtual therapy platform pairs expert physical therapists with FDA-listed wearable technology to deliver a personalized treatment plan that is more effective, easier and less expensive than traditional physical therapy. SWORD Health believes in the power of people to recover at home, without resorting to imaging, surgeries or opioids. Since launching in 2015, SWORD Health has worked with insurers, health systems and employers in the U.S, Europe and Australia to make quality physical therapy more accessible to everyone.
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