Staff Software Engineer- Backend

About the Role

The Content Platform team builds the shared systems that help Hinge Health create, manage, enrich, localize, publish, search, and deliver content across treatment experiences. The platform supports assets such as video, audio, images, captions, and text used by applications including Phoenix, Carehub, and onboarding experiences.

The team is extending the platform to make media and content workflows more scalable, observable, and self-service. This includes automated enrichment, localization, quality validation, asset lifecycle management, and AI-assisted content generation for exercise therapy and other treatment experiences.

We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the next generation of media and AI content pipelines. You will work across service boundaries to turn complex content operations into reliable, reusable platform capabilities.

You will design and ship systems that coordinate media processing, AI-generated audio and video assets, captions, localization, publishing, and quality control. You will help shape the platform architecture, make difficult trade-offs explicit, and build mechanisms that allow partner teams and content creators to move faster with less operational risk.

This is a hands-on Staff Engineer role. You will write production code, lead architecture and design reviews, participate in operational response, and coach engineers toward stronger technical ownership.

What You’ll Accomplish

• Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.
• Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.
• Collaborate with your team to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.
• Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.
• Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features, contributing to Hinge Health’s AI-driven care platform.
• Proactively improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of the team’s features, and contribute to the team’s overall architecture and developer tooling.
• Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.

Hinge Health Hybrid Model

We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days/week(Mon, Tue and Wed)

This is a Bengaluru-based role that involves regular interaction and collaboration with Hinge Health colleagues in San Francisco, CA.

Time zones: San Francisco is the Pacific Time Zone, which is 12 hours and 30 minutes behind India Standard Time – for example, 8am in San Francisco is 8:30pm in Bengaluru. Standard working hours in San Francisco are between 8am - 6pm. For this role, applicants should be open to meetings in the late evening following India Standard Time.

Basic 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.).

Preferred Qualifications

• A platform-as-product mindset: understanding internal users and consumers, defining clear contracts, improving developer experience and adoption, and measuring platform outcomes.
• Strong backend and distributed-systems fundamentals, including latency, throughput, availability, capacity, backpressure, consistency, resilience, and failure-mode analysis.
• Experience integra…