Senior Software Engineer- Backend

Overview

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 Content Platform team builds and maintains a centralized platform that enables efficient creation, management, search, and delivery of digital assets across distributed applications and services.The Content platform plays a key role in integrating CMS and HingeHealth services, content co-authoring services like translations, adaptive bitrate streaming, text to speech, closed captioning.Content Platform also production grade adoption of Generative AI for content generation at scale.

We are a hybrid team working across a handful of timezones with Pacific time core hours. The team uses remote pairing tools and collaborates frequently across all levels of seniority with an emphasis on empowering one another and leveling up as a team.

We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on python, Databricks, PySpark, Airflow, Docker, Rails, AWS, Postgres, Redis. 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

• Every day, you’ll collaborate closely with your teammates, product managers, and engineering managers to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable fullstack applications, with a strong focus on backend services in NodeJS. You’ll write clean, well-tested code that translates business needs into effective technical solutions, while mentoring teammates across geographies and contributing to a strong team culture.
• Every sprint, you’ll lead development efforts and participate in technical discussions, including the design and facilitation of internal “DnD” (Design and Development) sessions. You’ll also work on implementing features, addressing technical debt, and improving development processes, ensuring high reliability and performance.
• Every quarter, you’ll support staff engineers in driving platform-wide initiatives—such as system upgrades, new tooling, or process innovations—that enhance infrastructure, observability, and developer efficiency. You'll also contribute to standardization efforts that empower other pods to manage their services independently and securely.
• As part of a DevOps culture, you’ll take ownership of your code in production, contributing to a continuous deployment pipeline and supporting operational excellence across the platform.
  
  

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.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical degree
• 5+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience
• 3+ years of work experience with Node JS/ Typescript
• 1+ years of experience in mentoring and leading junior team members, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, and contributing to project planning and decision-making
• Experience with using AI tools such as Github copilot or Cursor
  
  

• Software engineer with strong experience to backend technology like NodeJS, RDBMS
• Exposure to microservices, distributed systems, containerization,
• Experience in caching, queues and throttling techniques
• Experience on hosting the solution on Cloud like AWS, CDN
• Exposure to work with 3rd Party technology is an added advantage
  
  

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare – starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions, which affect over 1.7 billion people worldwide. With an AI-powered human-centered care model, Hinge Health leverages cutting-edge technology to improve outcomes, experiences and costs to help people move beyond their pain. The platform addresses a broad spectrum of MSK care – from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation – through personalized, evidence-based care.

As the preferred partner to 50+ health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 20 million people across more than 2,550 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore. Learn more at http://www.hingehealth.com

What You'll Love About Us

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: In addition to comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we provide employees and their family members with Group Medical Coverage (GMC), Group Term Life Insurance (GTL), and Group Personal Accident Insurance (GPA).
• We also offer a lifestyle stipend to support your overall well-being, along with learning and development opportunities to help you grow both personally and professionally.
• Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.
  
  

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.

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Workday ID

JR1604