Senior Software Engineer- Backend

Overview:

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 Workflow team at Hinge Health prioritizes two key goals: ensuring members receive proper care support from the care team on time, and helping the care team efficiently manage their daily responsibilities.

BE: Backend engineers at Hinge Health contribute to their team's success by architecting and implementing end-to-end solutions, well-tested performant APIs and data models. In addition, candidates will profile their systems to stay out ahead of scaling bottlenecks, and help maintain a high bar with thoughtful and constructive code reviews.

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, , TypeScript, 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

• 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.

Qualificatons:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's 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 with at least one software programming language
• 4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
• 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
• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment.
• Proficiency in modern programming language Typescript.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers
• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures
• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments
• Backend engineer with exposure to back end technology like Node.Js & Typescript
• Experience on hosting the solution on Cloud like AWS
• Experience with Agile development practices

Company Information:

About Hinge Health

Hinge Health is moving people beyond pain by transforming the way it is treated and prevented. Connecting people digitally and in-person with expert clinical care, we combine advanced technology, AI and a care team of experts to guide people through personalized care directly from their phone. Our approach is proven to reduce pain by 68%, prevent 42% of new opioid prescriptions, and avoid more than half of joint replacement surgeries. Available to 18M people, Hinge Health is trusted by leading health plans and employers, including Land O'Lakes, L.L. Bean, Salesforce, Self-Insured Schools of California, Southern Company, City of Boston, US Foods, and Verizon.

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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.

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Diversity and Inclusion

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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.