Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Hinge Health • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Join the team transforming how millions of people access musculoskeletal care by building the engine that powers our growth. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Growth Engineering team, you will not just build features; you will architect the scalable, event-driven backend systems that integrate Hinge Health with major hospital systems and health plans. You will be a technical leader in a cloud-native environment, solving complex integration challenges to expand our ecosystem and deliver life-changing treatments to members worldwide.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical degree.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable backend systems and microservices.
• 4+ years of experience building event-driven systems.
• 4+ years of experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) and cloud architecture.
• Strong experience with backend technologies (e.g., Node.js/TypeScript, Python, relational and non-relational databases, messaging/streaming systems).
• Collaboration skills: Experience collaborating with or contributing to web or mobile frontends (understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern frameworks like React, Vue.js, or Angular).
• AI-Native: Hands-on experience with generative AI tools to accelerate development workflows, improve code quality, and streamline debugging.

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years of experience in TypeScript, NestJS, GraphQL, Node.js, relational and non-relational databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis.
• Integration Expert: Experience designing and evolving integration-heavy systems (e.g., with hospital systems, health plans, or other external partners).
• Frontend Fluency: Experience with mobile or web frontend development (e.g., React Native, React) sufficient to meaningfully collaborate on end-to-end feature delivery.
• Observability Champion: Experience with tools such as Datadog (performance monitoring) and Sentry (error tracking).
• System Design: Strong understanding of system design principles, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Architect the scalable, event-driven backend systems that integrate Hinge Health with major hospital systems and health plans.
• Be a technical leader in a cloud-native environment, solving complex integration challenges to expand our ecosystem and deliver life-changing treatments to members worldwide.
• Audit our current integration architecture.
• Build high-trust relationships with product managers and frontend partners.
• Ship your first set of secure, scalable features to support new growth initiatives.
• Take ownership of leading architectural discussions for complex, integration-heavy systems.
• Design and implement end-to-end solutions using Apache Kafka and DynamoDB.
• Mentor junior engineers to raise the technical bar.
• Champion improvements in system observability using Datadog and Sentry.
• Act as a primary owner for the long-term technical strategy of our growth platform.
• Optimize our backend services for massive scale.
• Establish durable architectural patterns that multiply the team's velocity.
• Play a pivotal role in delivering foundational improvements that help us reach 20+ million lives.

Benefits

• 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.
• Equity and benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior