Senior Software Engineer - Backend; Hinge Select

About the Role

As a Senior Software Engineer at Hinge Health, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining 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 is essential to 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 Exercise Therapy (ET) Platform team builds the core backend services that power Hinge Health’s personalized exercise therapy experiences. The team is focused on decoupling and re-architecting legacy systems to support multi-program delivery, enabling more flexible and scalable physical therapy solutions. This work is critical to Hinge Health’s broader engineering strategy around platform unification and directly supports key initiatives across product and clinical teams.

Engineers on the ET Platform team collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to build foundational services for program customization and seamless care delivery.

We enjoy a continuous deployment Dev Ops culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, Type Script, Nestjs, Graph

QL, Docker, 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

• Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.

• Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.

• Collaborate with your team 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 Health’s AI-driven care platform.

• Proactively improve the 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, and document solutions for future reference.

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 per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

Basic Qualifications

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

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 2+ years of experience building event driven systems

• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment

• Hands-on experience with generative AI tools to accelerate development workflows, improve code quality, and streamline debugging

Preferred Qualifications

• Deeper understanding of React framework

• Experience developing internal core services

• Experience with observability tools such as Datadog (performance monitoring) and Sentry (error tracking)

• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures

• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments

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.…