About this 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.

As a member of the Accounts team, you will help build and shape new improved experiences with impact across the whole company. A resilient and scalable Accounts system ensures both stability and helps with growth of our member base. You’ll work closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to build scalable, performant, and accessible applications that will enable every user to securely register, sign in and access our features

Frontend engineers contribute to their team’s success by adding beautiful, useful features to Hinge Health applications. Senior frontend engineers design and implement end-to-end solutions for large-scale features, profile app performance, 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 with an on-call rotation. Rotations vary by team. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Golang, Docker, Temporal, 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.

• Exhibit strong user and business judgment, grounding decisions in customer needs and business priorities to drive durable product value

• Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field

• 3+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience

• Experience with at least one software programming language

• Experience in the full software development life cycle

• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment

• Experience with mobile app development/deployment lifecycles

• Proficiency in TypeScript/JavaScript

• Experience with cloud based services (e.g. Docker/Kubernetes, cloud services such as AWS, and gRPC, protobufs, and temporal, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance

• Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers

• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or scalable architectures

• Experience with healthcare technology or regulated environments

• Experience with Agile development practices

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

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 per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.

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. Our AI-powered, human-centered care model spans MSK, pelvic health, gastrointestinal (GI) and migraine care. With over 60 partnerships with health plans, PBMs and other ecosystem partners, Hinge Health is available to over 25 million people across more than 2,900 employers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore. Learn more at hingehealth.com.

What You’ll Love About Us

• 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.

• Grow with us: Grow with us through discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement

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. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.

By submitting your application you are acknowledging we are using your personal data as outlined in the personnel and candidate privacy policy.

Beware of Phishing Attempts: We've noticed an increase in phishing where fraudsters impersonate employees and send fake job offers to steal sensitive information. We'll never ask for financial details during the hiring process and only use "@hingehealth.com" emails. If you receive a suspicious offer, stop communication and report it to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. To verify an email from our recruiting team, forward it to security@hingehealth.com.

This Senior Software Engineer role focuses on frontend experiences for Hinge Health’s Accounts team, including secure registration and sign-in. You’ll deliver production features, improve application quality, and work with product, design, and engineering partners in a hybrid San Francisco schedule.

Role at a glance

Skills mentioned

What you will likely work on

• Build and maintain frontend features for secure account registration, sign-in, and member access.
• Deliver large production projects that introduce product capabilities, and help maintain key code repositories.
• Profile and improve feature performance, availability, maintainability, accessibility, and scalability.
• Break complex work into manageable tasks, deliver predictably, and investigate incidents to their root causes.
• Partner with product, design, backend, and engineering teammates on roadmaps and technical trade-offs.
• Use AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features.
• Support junior engineers through mentoring, code reviews, and pairing.
• Contribute to team architecture and developer tooling; document solutions and communicate technical decisions.

Good fit signals

• Has at least three years of full-time, non-internship professional software development experience and a record of delivering production projects or features.
• Brings frontend experience, including TypeScript or JavaScript proficiency and familiarity with mobile app development and deployment lifecycles.
• Can deliver end-to-end work while balancing product needs, technical trade-offs, and production reliability.
• Communicates technical ideas to technical and non-technical partners; mentoring experience is preferred.
• Experience with AI-assisted development, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, scalable architectures, healthcare technology, regulated environments, or Agile practices may be helpful.