Staff Software Engineer - Backend

Hinge-Health; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 176,000 - 264,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking digital health company dedicated to transforming musculoskeletal care through innovative technology. As a backend engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable systems, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and lead architectural discussions to tackle complex challenges. The role offers a unique opportunity to work in a hybrid environment, blending remote and in-office collaboration, while contributing to impactful solutions that enhance patient care. If you're passionate about technology and healthcare, this position is your chance to make a difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage

Gender-affirming care support

401k retirement plan with company match

Modern life stipends for learning and development

Dog-friendly workplace

Travel reimbursements for healthcare

Flexible working hours

Employee wellness programs

Collaborative team environment

Continuous learning opportunities

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience in mentoring and leading junior team members.
• 2+ years in distributed systems and microservices architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• Lead architectural discussions and propose innovative solutions.
• Implement event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

AWS

Postgres

Kafka

CI/CD

Microservices

Observability

System Design

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Docker

React

Node.js

GraphQL

Terraform

Job description

About the Role

Hinge Health is a digital health company focused on providing innovative, evidence-based solutions for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. Through a combination of personalized exercise therapy and virtual care, Hinge Health helps individuals manage and reduce chronic pain, improving their quality of life while lowering healthcare costs. The company partners with employers and health plans to offer these solutions at scale, improving overall employee health and productivity.

The platform teams at Hinge Health are the teams that build the core services that power how we deliver care to our members. Our mission is to build scalable and configurable systems that are trivial to extend and easy to leverage within the context of AI. We are looking for passionate, innovative engineers to join our dynamic team and help us shape the future of how we deliver healthcare.

Backend engineers contribute to their team’s success by building and extending secure, scalable services and exposing clear, well-tested APIs that power beautiful client applications. Staff software engineers collaborate with teammates to tackle the hardest features in a sprint and deliver foundational architecture improvements in small, safe patches. The ideal candidate thrives in a highly collaborative, cross functional environment.

We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Apollo, and Redux. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD, and our security/compliance posture is at the highest standards of healthcare, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA.

What You'll Accomplish

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant systems leveraging Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Postgres, and AWS.

• Lead and participate in architectural discussions, proposing innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges.

• Implement and optimize event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.

• Develop backend services and APIs using TypeScript, ensuring clean, maintainable, and scalable code.

• Manage and scale databases to support high-availability and large-scale data applications.

• Ensure observability of systems using tools like Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Sentry for real-time monitoring, log management, and error tracking.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, staff and senior staff engineer and engineering leaders

• Advocate for best practices in software development, architecture, security, and system observability.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior engineers, promoting best practices in software engineering, testing, and development.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in AI, machine learning, and cloud technologies. Continuously improve the platform based on industry best practices.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days/week. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

• 8+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience

• 3+ years of experience in mentoring and leading junior team members, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, and contributing to project planning and decision-making

• 2+ years experience working in distributed systems, microservices architectures, and large-scale data processing

• 2+ years experience building CI/CD pipelines and deploying services to the cloud

• 2+ years experience with cloud platforms and containerization tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation

• Familiarity with data engineering practices and tools (e.g., Spark, Kafka, ETL pipelines)

• Familiarity with full-stack development concepts, enabling seamless collaboration with front-end teams and consideration of user-facing aspects when designing backend systems

• Experience with ReactJS framework on UI frontend and Node JS/Typescript on the backend

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to lead large-scale projects from concept to delivery

• Strong understanding of system design principles, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog (performance monitoring), Sumo Logic (log management), and Sentry (error tracking)

• Some experience building and and integrating with AI/ML platforms

Compensation

This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. Please note the annual salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. The annual salary range for this position is $176,000 - $264,000.

About Hinge Health

Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care—from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation—and the platform can help to ease members’ pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com

What You'll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn’t available where you live.

• Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.

• Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

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Workday ID

JR1425