Senior Software Engineer - Search
Hinge Health2 days ago
Base Salary
$164k - $217k/yr
Responsibilities
- Audit provider and facility discovery architecture for geospatial search and entity resolution gaps.
- Design and launch geospatial search using Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including radius, bounding-box, and polygon-based queries.
- Extend entity resolution pipelines to match, merge, and deduplicate provider data across multiple sources.
- Own asynchronous data ingestion for a critical data source and keep search indexes fresh and accurate.
- Optimize search relevance and query performance for high-traffic lookup scenarios.
- Maintain search and knowledge graph repositories, establish technical standards, and mentor junior engineers.
- Drive technical strategy across search relevance, latency, and infrastructure cost tradeoffs.
- Collaborate with product, design, data engineering, and operations teams and respond to production incidents.
- Experiment with AI technologies to automate entity matching and improve search personalization.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 3 years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience.
- At least 3 years of hands-on Elasticsearch or OpenSearch experience, including index design, mapping configuration, query DSL, and relevance tuning.
- Strong understanding of geospatial search and entity resolution across disparate data sources.
- Proficiency with modern backend languages such as Golang, Python, or Java and cloud-based services including gRPC, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS.
- Preferred experience with search-driven discovery products, healthcare data standards such as NPI and FHIR, and healthcare technology or regulated environments.
- Preferred experience with PostGIS, H3, S2 geometry, Solr spatial, record linkage, Jaro-Winkler, Levenshtein, probabilistic matching, Temporal, Airflow, or Step Functions.
- Preferred experience with distributed systems, gRPC service architectures, AI technology for software design and coding, and mentoring or onboarding junior engineers.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, including family, gender-affirming care, fertility planning, and travel reimbursement benefits.
- Traditional and Roth 401k options with a 2% company match.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Discounted company stock through an employee stock purchase plan.
- Hybrid work model requiring three days per week in the office for full business days.
- San Francisco office offers a dog-friendly workplace program.
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Hinge Health
Hinge Health builds a digital musculoskeletal care platform for employers and health plans, combining a mobile app, connected sensors, AI, and clinicians to deliver personalized rehab and pain management. It sells as an employee benefit and integrates with health plans and PBMs; the program spans acute injury, chronic pain, and post-surgical recovery. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in San Francisco, it serves 2,550+ employers and 50+ health plans, reaching over 20 million eligible members.