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Senior Software Engineer - Backend at Hinge Health

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About The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Hinge Health, you will design, build, and maintain large-scale software solutions that directly impact our members health outcomes. You will collaborate with cross-functional partners, including product managers and designers, to deliver new product capabilities and improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of our features. This role supports advancing our mission of transforming joint and muscle care through technology, including the integration of AI-driven solutions to automate and enhance care delivery. Hinge Health software engineers work on small interdisciplinary teams focused on different parts of the user journey.

The Computer Vision (CV) User Experience team integrates our TrueMotion CV technology and develops TrueMotion-enabled features that enhance users\' digital physiotherapy experience. These features use mobile device cameras and TrueMotion to monitor movement, provide performance feedback and guidance, and track progress throughout programs and recovery journeys.

As a Senior Backend Engineer on this team, you will architect and implement robust, end-to-end solutions, including well-tested, performant APIs and data models. You will proactively profile systems to identify scaling bottlenecks and maintain high code quality through thoughtful and constructive code reviews. The team manages the entire stack of our services and applications to achieve these goals. We embrace a continuous deployment DevOps culture and own our production code. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Apollo, and Redux. Our workflow follows trunk-based CI/CD with a strong security/compliance posture (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and CCPA).

What You\'ll Accomplish

• Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories and directing the work of junior engineers.
• Collaborate with product, design, and research partners to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.
• Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features, contributing to Hinge Healths AI-driven care platform.
• Proactively improve maintainability, availability, and performance of the team\'s features, and contribute to the team\'s overall architecture and developer tooling.
• Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners in project documentation, presentations, and demos.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to leverage the best of both. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days/week.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
• 5+ years of non-internship full-time professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience deploying, scaling, and optimizing applications and services aligned to our tech stack
• 4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance
• Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers
• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures
• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments
• Experience with Agile development practices

Compensation

This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. The annual salary range for this position is $148,000 - $222,000 , and total compensation varies based on qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location.

About Hinge Health

Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved outcomes, and cost reductions for clients. The platform addresses MSK care from acute injury to chronic pain to post-surgical rehabilitation, helping to ease pain, improve function, and drive health equity by enabling exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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What You\'ll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: medical, dental, vision coverage, gender-affirming care, family planning tools, and travel reimbursements when care isn\'t available locally.
• Planning for the future: 401k options with company match.
• Modern life stipends: support for learning and development.

Culture & Engagement

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment and make employment decisions without regard to protected characteristics. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need assistance, contact the recruiter. By submitting your application you acknowledge our privacy policy.

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