Staff Software Engineer- Backend

The role

A Staff Software Engineer will provide technical leadership for media and AI content pipelines. You will design and ship systems for media processing, AI-generated assets, and localization. This is a hands-on role involving writing production code, leading architecture reviews, and coaching engineers.

What you will do

• Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities.
• Break down complex problems into manageable tasks.
• Collaborate to roadmap and execute technical strategies.
• Mentor and support junior engineers through code reviews and pairing.
• Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes.
• Improve maintainability, availability, and performance of features.
• Communicate technical ideas to technical and non-technical partners.
• Write production code and lead architecture and design reviews.
• Participate in operational response.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
• 10+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience
• 4+ years of experience with at least one software programming language
• 4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
• 3+ years of work experience with react JS and Node JS/ Typescript
• 1+ years of experience in mentoring and leading junior team members, collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams, and contributing to project planning and decision-making
• Experience with using AI tools such as Github copilot, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph
• Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment
• Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)

Nice to have

• A platform-as-product mindset
• Strong backend and distributed-systems fundamentals
• Experience integrating large language models or generative AI services into production workflows
• Experience defining and maintaining SLOs and SLAs
• Experience improving observability through metrics, logs, traces, and dashboards
• Experience with headless CMS integrations, webhook-driven systems, vendor adapters, CDNs, or publishing pipelines
• Experience with durable workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal
• Experience with media processing tools such as ffmpeg, adaptive bitrate video, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, or caption formats
• Experience with event streaming, such as Kafka, and CI/CD automation, such as GitHub Actions
• Experience working in healthcare, privacy-sensitive, regulated, or otherwise high-trust environments

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Group Medical Coverage (GMC)
• Group Term Life Insurance (GTL)
• Group Personal Accident Insurance (GPA)
• Lifestyle stipend
• Learning and development opportunities
• Discounted company stock through ESPP

About the company

Hinge Health uses technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. The company is headquartered in San Francisco with additional offices in Montreal and Bangalore.