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About the 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. The Content Platform team builds and maintains a centralized platform that enables efficient creation, management, search, and delivery of digital assets across distributed applications and services. The Content platform plays a key role in integrating CMS and Hinge Health services, including content co-authoring services like translations, adaptive bitrate streaming, text-to-speech, and closed captioning. The team is also driving production-grade adoption of Generative AI for content generation at scale.

What You'll Accomplish

• Deliver fullstack excellence: Collaborate closely with teammates, product managers, and engineering managers to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable fullstack applications, with a strong focus on backend services in Node.js.

• Drive technical quality: Write clean, well-tested code that translates business needs into effective technical solutions, while mentoring teammates across geographies and contributing to a strong team culture.

• Lead development efforts: Lead sprint development efforts and participate in technical discussions, including the design and facilitation of internal “DnD” (Design and Development) sessions.

• Operationalize success: Implement features, address technical debt, and improve development processes to ensure high reliability and performance.

• Scale the platform: Support staff engineers in driving platform-wide initiatives—such as system upgrades, new tooling, or process innovations—that enhance infrastructure, observability, and developer efficiency.

• Champion DevOps culture: Take ownership of your code in production, contributing to a continuous deployment pipeline and supporting operational excellence across the platform.

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/week.

This is a Bengaluru-based role that involves regular interaction and collaboration with Hinge Health colleagues in San Francisco, CA.

Time zones: San Francisco is the Pacific Time Zone, which is 12 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time – for example, 8am in San Francisco is 8:30pm in Bengaluru. Standard working hours in San Francisco are between 8am - 6pm. For this role, applicants should be open to meetings in the late evening following India Standard Time.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical degree, or equivalent practical experience

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

• 3+ years of work experience with Node.js / TypeScript

• 1+ years of experience in mentoring and leading junior team members, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, and contributing to project planning and decision-making

• Experience with using AI tools such as GitHub Copilot or Cursor

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong experience with backend technologies (Node.js, RDBMS)

• Exposure to microservices, distributed systems, and containerization

• Experience in caching, queues, and throttling techniques

• Experience hosting solutions on cloud platforms like AWS and using CDNs

• Exposure to working with 3rd party technology

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.

• 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.

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