Backend Software Engineer, Hinge Health

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related technical degree
• 2+ years of full time professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience with backend development

Desirable

• Hinge Health software engineers work on small interdisciplinary teams focused on different parts of the user journey
• Fullstack engineers contribute to their team’s success by building and extending secure, scalable services and exposing clear, well-tested APIs that power beautiful client applications
• Fullstack engineers design and implement end-to-end solutions, profile their systems to stay out ahead of scaling bottlenecks, and help maintain a high bar with thoughtful and constructive code reviews
• In addition to contributing to valuable new features, software engineers pay down tech debt, spike on novel solutions, and share responsibility for healthy live site operation
• We expect team members to use clear, concise language to navigate abstract solutions, provide constructive PR feedback, and actively participate in planning sessions and team meetings
• The Exercise Therapy (ET) Platform team builds the core backend services that power Hinge Health’s personalized exercise therapy experiences
• The team is focused on decoupling and re-architecting legacy systems to support multi-program delivery, enabling more flexible and scalable physical therapy solutions
• This work is critical to Hinge Health’s broader engineering strategy around platform unification and directly supports key initiatives across product and clinical teams
• Engineers on the ET Platform team collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to build foundational services for program customization and seamless care delivery
• We are a hybrid team working across a handful of timezones with Pacific time core hours. The team uses remote pairing tools and collaborates frequently across all levels of seniority with an emphasis on empowering one another and leveling up as a team
• Complex Problem Solving: Solves problems that have minimal visible risks or roadblocks but a multitude of possible states, execution paths, asynchronous control flow, or late-binding dependencies
• Code Reviews and Direction: Able to review code and provide constructive direction. Gives consistently clear and constructive PR feedback
• Debugging: Able to debug familiar code or systems easily and can debug unfamiliar code with some effort. Prepares to work on new tasks by planning an approach ahead of time and confirming it's well thought out
• AI Tools: Utilizes AI tools for team-level efficiency and quality. Understands the technical concepts necessary to do the job effectively and is aware of industry trends in their domain
• Planning and Estimation: Participates in the team's planning and is learning to estimate how long work will take. Utilizes new technologies and patterns to supplement their own skills
• Post-Release Ownership: Takes ownership of their work after it's released and quickly addresses issues as they arise. Solves problems with multiple states and execution paths
• Observability: Demonstrates a good understanding of tools like New Relic, DataDog, or Sentry to monitor errors and performance
• Operational Excellence: Demonstrates operational excellence by planning approaches ahead of time, utilizing new technologies, and participating in team planning and estimation
• We enjoy a continuous deployment DevOps culture, and take owner-operator pride in supporting our code in production. Our production systems rely on React Native, React, Node.js, TypeScript, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, AWS, Postgres, Redis, Apollo, and Redux. Our workflow is trunk-based CI/CD