About the position
Hinge Health is seeking a highly experienced Senior Staff Engineer to join our dynamic Research and Development team. Our mission is to transform healthcare by expanding Hinge Health's platform to seamlessly integrate with the broader healthcare ecosystem. As a Senior Staff Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building scalable service architecture, high-impact solutions that will deliver life-changing treatments to millions. You will guide and accelerate the evolution of Hinge Health's platform initiatives through building the right architecture of the services through domain driven design. The evolutionary pressures are both operational and strategic. Operationally, Hinge Health's backend systems must continue to deliver world-class availability through scaling in a high-compliance medical business. Strategically, a rapidly-increasing number of product teams must remain empowered to use and extend the platform everyday. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of domain driven design, microservices architecture, and experience with accelerating engineering effectiveness. Additionally this role requires a proactive, can-do attitude to tackle challenges and drive projects forward with enthusiasm and determination who loves to be hands on coding. In this role, you will glide between levels of abstraction to foster strong technical alignment, facilitate great technical decision making, and implement elegant solutions to the most complex and high-leverage technical problems. Your pragmatism, collaboration, thoughtfulness, and creative joy will shine through in every gesture, and disproportionately influence the technical culture of our team. Additionally, we are looking for someone who can effectively communicate skills with the ability to work strategically across teams and mentor others.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable systems using technologies such as Kafka, Python, TypeScript, Postgres, DynamoDB, and AWS.
- Lead and participate in architectural discussions, proposing innovative solutions to complex engineering challenges.
- Implement and optimize event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka.
- Develop backend services and APIs using Python and TypeScript, ensuring clean, maintainable, and scalable code.
- Manage and scale databases to support high-availability and large-scale data applications.
- Ensure observability of systems using tools like Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Sentry for real-time monitoring, log management, and error tracking.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product managers, staff and senior staff engineers, and engineering leaders.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
- Advocate for best practices in software development, architecture, security, and system observability.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field.
- 10+ years of experience in software engineering, with a proven track record of building scalable microservices.
- 5+ years of experience in TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Node.js, relational and non-relational databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis.
- 4+ years of experience building event-driven systems.
- 4+ years of experience with AWS services (e.g., EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS) and cloud architecture.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience with system design principles, microservices architecture, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with observability tools such as Datadog, Sumo Logic, and Sentry.
- Experience with building AI Enabled platforms and AI powered development.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements.
- Traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options with a 2% company match.
- Modern life stipends for learning and development.
