Senior Software Engineer - Backend

One in two people experience debilitating back, neck, shoulder, or joint pain — but traditional treatments have failed to meet their needs. Physical therapy can be expensive and hard to access; appointments often involve long commutes and missed work. Making matters worse, unresolved pain can trigger the overuse of opioids and surgeries.
Join us in reimagining healthcare from the ground up. We’re making high-quality care accessible by pairing wearable sensors and computer vision with a world-class clinical team. Hinge Health puts a digital clinic in every member's pocket. Now millions of people can access personalized digital care from a physical therapist, guidance on behavior change from a health coach, and expert consultations with an orthopedic surgeon. With a single app and wearable technology like our Enso device, we’re helping to reduce pain, surgeries, and opioid use.
Here at Hinge Health, we welcome all applicants and know a diverse team makes us better and stronger. We look for individuals who embody our leadership principles and we value varied experiences and skill sets. Beyond specific work experience, we also look for unique capabilities and skill sets that are key indicators an applicant will thrive in our fast-paced, frequently evolving environment. If this sounds like the kind of place you’d like to be part of, please apply - we would love to hear from you!
Work From AnywhereHinge Health employees have the flexibility to work remotely in hubs across the US, Canada, and Latin America or work from our offices in San Francisco, Portland, and Montreal.
About the RoleBackend Engineers at Hinge Health contribute to their team’s success by architecting and implementing end-to-end solutions, well-tested performant APIs and data models. In addition, candidates will profile their systems to stay out ahead of scaling bottlenecks, and help maintain a high bar with thoughtful and constructive code reviews. The ideal candidate thrives in a highly collaborative, cross functional environment.
Our tech stack: Rails, Nodejs, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, React, React Native, Aptible, 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, CCPA.
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WHAT YOU’LL ACCOMPLISH

• Every day, you’ll review 2x more PRs than you open.
• Every sprint, you’ll design and incrementally deliver meaningful, complex features. 
• Every month, you’ll resolve a couple performance and scaling bottlenecks, balancing feature development with long-term tech investments to keep the platform healthy and nimble.
• Every quarter, you’ll help define the objectives and key results that will shape your team’s roadmap.

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Delivery: Ability to break big projects into small, testable pieces to consistently hit business-meaningful milestones  
• Domain Expertise: Experience with distributed microservices architecture built in Docker containers utilizing Ruby on Rails and/or Nodejs/TypeScript
• Experience with RESTful and GraphQL API
• Experience with relational databases and caching systems
• Experience working with CI/CD tools
• Experience building fault-tolerant, distributed systems
• Experience with message queues is a plus
• Problem Solving: Business intuition that informs right-sized solutions, thoughtful trade offs, and game-changing innovation   
• Communication: Clear, inclusive communication with both teammates and non-technical partners
• Leadership: A track record of strong ownership, initiative, tenacity, integrity, and humility
• BS degree in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field

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 budget, use the mental health to support therapy costs, and lifestyle stipends to cover your favorite wellness services, and work-from-home equipment.
• Flexible vacation and paid time off: Employees have flexibility to choose when, how, and why they take time off to rest and recharge. Exempt employees can take advantage of our flexible pto program. Nonexempt employees can utilize up to two weeks of sick time and up to 17 days of vacation per year, including mental health days.
• Other compensation: At Hinge Health, we want every employee to be invested and rewarded in the fu