Staff Engineer/Tech Lead, MSK Verticals

About the role:

Join the team responsible for the products at the heart of how Hinge Health delivers care for musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. This team owns our core MSK programs and the build-out of new ones, like our recently launched migraine offering, that let us scale the business into new conditions and reach more members.

As a Staff Engineer, you'll help take new programs of care from early concept to a stable, scaled offering, then keep sharpening what already works. That means building the greenfield features that make a new program a real, differentiated offering, not just an existing treatment experience with a new label. It also means extending and hardening the shared services that power all of our programs. You'll work closely with Product and with engineers across multiple partner teams to ship a coherent, end-to-end program of care for our members.

What You'll Accomplish:

• Drive the pod's technical direction: Act as the primary technical lead for the team, setting and evolving the technical roadmap and making the day-to-day architectural and prioritization calls that keep the pod moving.
• Bring new programs of care to life: Lead the technical design and delivery of new MSK programs, building the features and workflows that make each program a credible, differentiated offering.
• Strengthen what's already live: Take newly launched programs from shipped to stable and scaled, improving reliability, performance, and quality as usage grows.
• Extend our shared platform: Design and build within our existing services (NestJS backend, React Native app, PostgreSQL) to support new programs without fragmenting the platform.
• Partner deeply with Product: Work hand-in-hand with Product to translate program strategy into technical plans, surfacing trade-offs and options as scope evolves.
• Collaborate across teams: Coordinate closely with engineers on partner teams to deliver a cohesive member experience across the many services and teams a program touches.
• Elevate engineering practices: Champion strong practices around CI/CD, testing, and monitoring. Mentor other engineers and raise the bar for the team.

Who You Are:

• A Technical Visionary: You navigate ambiguity well and can turn a broad product goal into a concrete, scalable technical plan.
• A Builder Across Horizons: You're equally comfortable in 0→1 greenfield work and in hardening something already live.
• A Force Multiplier: You raise the level of everyone around you through code review, mentorship, and by setting technical standards that reduce friction.
• A Natural Collaborator: You thrive working across team boundaries, with Product and with engineers on other teams, to deliver something coherent even when the work spans many services and owners.

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of non-internship full-time professional software engineering experience
• 2+ years of experience with TypeScript/JavaScript across the stack (Node.js/NestJS on the backend; React or React Native on the frontend).
• 2+ years of experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and containerization tools.
• 2+ years of experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL or similar), distributed systems, and microservices architectures.
• 3+ years of experience mentoring or leading other engineers and collaborating effectively across cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• NestJS & React Native: Direct experience with NestJS. Any mobile app development experience is a plus.
• Multi-team delivery: Experience shipping a product or feature that required close, ongoing coordination across several engineering teams.
• Regulated Industry Knowledge: Experience working within healthcare (HIPAA) or other highly regulated environments involving sensitive member data.
• Technical Leadership: Experience informally or formally leading a team's technical direction, setting architecture, sequencing work, and being the go-to technical decision-maker for a pod.

About Hinge Health:

At Hinge Health, we’re using technology to scale and automate the delivery of healthcare, starting with musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions. With an AI-powered human-centered care model, Hinge Health leverages technology to improve outcomes, experiences, and costs to help people move beyond their pain. The platform addresses a broad spectrum of MSK care through personalized, evidence-based care.

What You’ll Love About Us:

• Inclusive healthcare and benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, along with support for gender-affirming care, family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements.
• Planning for the future: Traditional or Roth 401k retirement plan options with a 2% company match.
• Modern life stipends: Support for learning and development.
• Grow with us: Discounted company stock through our ESPP with easy payroll deductions.

Culture & Engagement:

Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.

Hinge Health uses a hybrid work model. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week for the full 8 hours of a typical business day. The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.