Staff Software Engineer

Hinge Health

Staff Software Engineer in hybrid role at Hinge Health, architecting mobile and backend systems for healthcare technology. Mentoring engineers and improving technical excellence within the CV User Experience team.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeSan Francisco • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 CA$134,400 - CA$201,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsDockerEC2GraphQLJavaScriptKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesNode.jsReactReact NativeTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Ramp into the CV User Experience stack (React Native, TypeScript, NestJS, GraphQL, AWS) and build relationships with product managers, designers, data scientists, and computer vision scientists.
Deliver your first end-to-end feature while auditing the current architecture for scaling and performance bottlenecks.
Own and lead architectural discussions for TrueMotion-driven experiences, proactively identifying challenges and proposing innovative solutions to complex mobile and full-stack engineering problems.
Establish stronger system observability using Datadog and Sentry, improving monitoring, logging, and error tracking across the full stack.
Profile systems to stay ahead of scaling and performance bottlenecks, ensuring a fast, responsive mobile experience for users.
Act as the primary technical leader for the team's architecture — designing robust, end-to-end solutions including performant APIs, mobile application architecture, and data models that are the foundation for TrueMotion's next generation.
Mentor engineers and promote a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement through thoughtful code reviews, design discussions, and knowledge sharing.
Every quarter, identify, propose, and execute a significant upgrade or innovative change to the team's workflow, tooling, or architecture.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software engineering experience
3+ years of experience building and shipping mobile applications
3+ years of experience with backend technologies such as TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, or GraphQL
2+ years of experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS) and containerization tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
Experience working in distributed systems and microservices architectures
Hands-on experience with generative AI tools to accelerate development workflows, improve code quality, and streamline debugging
3+ years of experience building and shipping mobile applications using React Native (Preferred Qualification)
Experience with event-driven architectures and tools such as Apache Kafka (Preferred Qualification)
Proficiency with observability tools such as Datadog and Sentry (Preferred Qualification)
Strong understanding of system design principles, mobile application architecture, and CI/CD pipelines (Preferred Qualification)
Experience with computer vision–driven user experiences on mobile platforms (Preferred Qualification)
Demonstrated track record of mentoring engineers and leading architectural discussions across teams (Preferred Qualification)
Proficiency in both English and French is an asset (Preferred Qualification).

Benefits

Comp & perks

Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive supplemental health, 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 Group RRSP plan, which includes a 2% company match.
Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development.

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Hard Skills & Tools

React NativeTypeScriptNestJSGraphQLAWSNode.jsDockerKubernetesgenerative AIevent-driven architecture

Soft Skills

mentoringleadershipcommunicationproblem-solvingcollaborationinnovationtechnical excellencecontinuous improvementcode reviewsknowledge sharing