Senior Software Engineer - Backend

The role

You will design and evolve reliable services, APIs, and data models for revenue-critical financial and billing systems. You will work on high-impact backend infrastructure to improve data traceability and system reliability.

What you will do

• Deliver large projects across billing and financial workflows.
• Design and evolve reliable services, APIs, and data models.
• Build for correctness and traceability through durable workflows and validation.
• Break down complex, cross-functional problems into manageable tasks.
• Collaborate with Product, Finance, Operations, Data, and partner engineering teams.
• Improve maintainability, availability, performance, and observability of financial systems.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews and design feedback.
• Communicate technical ideas to technical and non-technical partners.
• Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes.
• Participate in the team's weekly on-call rotation.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience with at least one programming language.
• 2+ years of experience across the full software development life cycle, from design through production support.
• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment.
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language, such as Golang, Python, Java, or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Experience designing and operating backend services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous or distributed workflows.
• Experience working with relational databases and integrations where data integrity, failure handling, and observability are important.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with cross-functional partners and communicate technical trade-offs clearly.

Nice to have

• Experience building billing, payments, revenue, accounting, claims, or other financial systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, event-driven architectures, workflow orchestration, and scalable cloud services.
• Experience with Golang, Python, gRPC, Postgres, Redis, Temporal, AWS
• Experience improving data quality, operational visibility, incident response, or developer tooling for critical systems.
• Experience mentoring or onboarding junior engineers.
• Experience with AI technologies for software design, coding assistance, or process automation.

About the company

Hinge Health is a digital health company focused on delivering evidence-based solutions for musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. The Financial Systems team builds and operates the billing and financial infrastructure that powers how Hinge Health makes money.