Hinge Health

Hinge Health

Senior Software Engineer - Backend

San Francisco-HQ · Senior · Full-time

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About the role

  • Hinge Health is a digital health company focused on delivering evidence-based solutions for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain.
  • We are looking for a Backend Software Engineer who is excited to work on high-impact financial systems where correctness and reliability matter.
  • The ideal candidate thrives in cross-functional collaboration, is comfortable with ambiguity, and takes a systems-thinking approach to problems involving data integrity, integrations, operational workflows, and long-term maintainability.

Responsibilities

  • Our systems support the movement of revenue-critical data across products, payers, and internal financial workflows.
  • You care about the details, understand the customer impact of financial systems, and take ownership from design through production operation.
  • Deliver large projects across billing and financial workflows, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.
  • Design and evolve reliable services, APIs, and data models for revenue-critical systems, including billing flows, payment-model changes, payer integrations, and financial data movement.
  • Build for correctness and traceability by establishing clear data ownership, durable workflows, idempotent processing, strong validation, and actionable audit and operational signals.
  • Mentor and support junior engineers through thoughtful code reviews, pairing, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in the team's weekly on-call rotation, helping ensure the reliability and timely support of the systems we build.
  • You will profile systems to stay ahead of scaling bottlenecks, participate in thoughtful and constructive code reviews, and help maintain a high engineering bar.
  • We practice continuous deployment and expect owner-operators to support the systems they build in production.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 3+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience.
  • 2+ years of experience with at least one programming language.
  • 2+ years of experience across the full software development life cycle, from design through production support.
  • Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment.
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
  • Experience designing and operating backend services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous or distributed workflows.
  • Experience working with relational databases and integrations where data integrity, failure handling, and observability are important.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, and scalable cloud services.
  • Experience with Golang, Python, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, AWS\
  • Experience improving data quality, operational visibility, incident response, or developer tooling for critical systems.
  • Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers.
  • Experience with AI technologies for software design, coding assistance, or process automation.
  • The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.
  • The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore.
  • Learn more at hingehealth.com http://hingehealth.com.

Benefits

  • Start saving for the future with our traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.
  • Manage your own learning and development.
  • Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.
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  • Collaborate with Product, Finance, Operations, Data, and partner engineering teams to define requirements, roadmap technical strategy, and balance short-term delivery with long-term system health.

Company info

  • ABOUT HINGE HEALTH 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.

Equal opportunity

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