Hinge Health

Hinge Health

Senior Software Engineer - Search

San Francisco-HQ · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 97 days ago
PythonJavaGoDistributed SystemsAlgorithmsElasticsearchAWSDockerKubernetesTemporalgRPCAirflowData EngineeringAI OrchestrationHL7/FHIRCommunicationMentoring

About the role

  • Imagine you're a patient in pain, searching for the right provider who accepts your insurance, is close to home, and specializes in your condition. Now imagine getting it wrong—waiting weeks for an appointment only to discover they can't help you. This role exists to eliminate that frustration.
  • You'll build the search infrastructure and entity resolution systems that power Hinge Select—our integration of digital and in-person MSK care. As an early team member, you'll architect geospatial search capabilities that help millions of people find the right care, fast. You'll work at the intersection of search infrastructure, data quality, and

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with product, design, and data engineering teams to understand upstream data sources and downstream user needs
  • Deliver your first search optimization-improving relevance tuning or query performance for a high-traffic lookup scenario
  • Design and launch geospatial search capabilities using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (radius, bounding-box, polygon-based queries) that scale to millions of records
  • Own the async data ingestion pipeline for a critical data source, ensuring search indexes stay fresh and accurate
  • You document your decisions clearly, making it easy for teammates to understand your work.
  • You'll build the search infrastructure and entity resolution systems that power Hinge Select-our integration of digital and in-person MSK care.
  • Drive technical strategy for the team, balancing tradeoffs between search relevance, latency, and infrastructure cost

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including index design, mapping configuration, query DSL, and relevance tuning
  • Strong understanding of geospatial search (geo_point/geo_shape types, distance-based queries, bounding box filters) and entity resolution (matching, merging, and deduplicating records across disparate data sources)
  • Proficiency in modern backend languages (Golang, Python, Java, or similar) and cloud-based services (gRPC, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)
  • Experience with spatial indexing libraries (PostGIS, H3, S2 geometry, Solr spatial)
  • Experience with workflow orchestration systems (Temporal, Airflow, Step Functions) for data pipelines

Nice to have

  • Imagine you're a patient in pain, searching for the right provider who accepts your insurance, is close to home, and specializes in your condition.
  • Now imagine getting it wrong-waiting weeks for an appointment only to discover they can't help you.
  • This role exists to eliminate that frustration.
  • As an early team member, you'll architect geospatial search capabilities that help millions of people find the right care, fast.

Benefits

  • 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 with stipends to support your growth.
  • Hinge Health is an
  • 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.

Company info

  • The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore.

Equal opportunity

  • If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.
  • equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind.
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