Senior Software Engineer - Backend
Hinge Health8 hours ago
Base Salary
$158k - $238k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver large projects across billing and financial workflows and maintain key code repositories.
- Design and evolve reliable services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous or distributed workflows for revenue-critical systems.
- Build durable, traceable, and idempotent financial data processing with strong validation, audit signals, and operational visibility.
- Identify root causes of incidents and data discrepancies while improving system maintainability, availability, performance, and observability.
- Collaborate with Product, Finance, Operations, Data, and partner engineering teams on requirements, roadmaps, and technical strategy.
- Support production systems, developer tooling, and operational runbooks.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pairing, design feedback, and knowledge sharing.
- Communicate technical decisions clearly and document workflows for technical and non-technical partners.
- Integrate AI technologies into engineering, operational, and product processes with appropriate review and control.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- At least 5 years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience.
- At least 4 years of experience with one or more programming languages and across the full software development life cycle.
- Experience delivering large software projects or features in production.
- Proficiency in a 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 with relational databases and integrations where data integrity, failure handling, and observability are important.
- Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.
- Preferred experience with billing, payments, revenue, accounting, claims, or other financial systems.
- Preferred familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, scalable cloud services, data quality, incident response, developer tooling, mentoring, and AI technologies.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in the San Francisco office with in-person attendance three days per week and remote work on other days during core business hours.
- Dog-friendly workplace with occasional off-site or on-site events and minimal physical demands.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage, including support for gender-affirming care, family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements for unavailable healthcare.
- Traditional or Roth 401(k) options with a 2% company match.
- Learning and development stipend.
- Discounted company stock through an ESPP.
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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.