About the Role
Join Hinge Health to lead the engineering team behind our accounts platform—the identity, accounts, authentication, and permissions systems that power every member, clinician, client, and internal experience across web, mobile, and APIs. You’ll own a critical platform with stringent reliability, security, and privacy requirements, partnering closely with Product, Design, Security, Data, and Operations to deliver seamless, compliant access at scale.
You’ll manage and grow a team of 6+ engineers, guide the technical vision and roadmap, and stay close to the code through reviews and occasional contributions (~15%). We practice continuous delivery and a DevOps culture with engineers participating in an on-call rotation and owning what we ship. Our production systems rely on Golang, gRPC, AWS, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal. 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
Drive the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for accounts: identity models, authentication, authorization, session and device management, account recovery, delegated administration, and audit trails.
Deliver simple, reliable, secure account experiences across web, mobile, and APIs with clear SLOs for availability, latency, and correctness.
Integrate and/or build IAM capabilities using industry protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML) and standards (e.g., SCIM for provisioning) where appropriate.
Raise the engineering bar via design reviews, code reviews, technical roadmaps, threat modeling, post-incident reviews, and high-quality documentation.
Establish high-signal metrics and feedback loops for reliability, performance, and customer outcomes; use observability to drive continuous improvement.
Apply AI and automation for provisioning, anomaly detection, access reviews, and reliability tooling.
Hire, mentor, and grow engineers toward senior/staff levels; foster an inclusive, high-performance culture and sustainable on-call practices.
Manage capacity, technical debt, and operational excellence; make clear build-vs-buy decisions for identity components and vendors.
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.
Basic Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
8+ years of experience in the technology industry, with a focus on SaaS products and large-scale, complex systems
2+ years managing software engineers (5+), including hiring and performance management
4+ years building and operating secure, highly available backend systems with modern languages (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript/Node, Python)
Experience building distributed systems and cloud-based technologies (e.g., gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS)
Preferred Qualifications
Strong grasp of relational data modeling and transactional integrity (Postgres or similar)
Proven delivery of complex, multi-stakeholder roadmaps and operational excellence in production
Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, CCPA)
Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance
Background in healthcare, payments, or other regulated technology industries
Compensation
This position will have an annual salary, plus equity and benefits. Please note the annual salary range is a guideline, and individual total compensation will vary based on factors such as qualifications, skill level, competencies, and work location. The annual salary range for this position is $220,000 - $330,000.
About Hinge Health
Hinge Health leverages software, including AI, to largely automate care for joint and muscle health, delivering an outstanding member experience, improved member outcomes, and cost reductions for its clients. The company has designed its platform to address a broad spectrum of MSK care—from acute injury, to chronic pain, to post-surgical rehabilitation—and the platform can help to ease members’ pain, improve their function, and reduce their need for surgeries, all while driving health equity by allowing members to engage in their exercise therapy sessions from anywhere. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more at http://www.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
Diversity and Inclusion
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.
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Workday ID
JR1670