# Engineering Manager, New Vertical

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $212k – $318k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** React Native, GraphQL, Go, JavaScript, Python, TypeScript, AWS, CI/CD, A/B Testing, AI Agents
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Engineering manager building a new digital health product line from scratch at Hinge Health. Lead a team to create mobile (React Native) and backend experiences blending AI, licensed providers, and hardware; own end-to-end product definition, rapid A/B experimentation, and launch.

## Job Description

## What You’ll Accomplish

**In your first 3 months, you will:**
- Build a team of 5 engineers building across our React Native (Phoenix) mobile codebase and backend services (Go & JS), establishing clear goals, rituals, and expectations for a high-performing team.
- Define the new vertical/product line from scratch.
- Build strong partnerships with Product, Design, and Marketing to align on the strategy, experimentation roadmap, and success metrics.

**In your first 6 months, you will:**
- Build the “new vertical” product as a minimum loveable product (MLP) defining how to use display software, AI solutions and licensed care providers to deliver a significant health improvement for members.
- Establish a rigorous portfolio of A/B experiments to run post launch of the new product planning for funnel optimizations to ensure success of members.
- Establish engineering best practices for CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and client performance across the entire stack.

**Within 12 months and beyond, you will:**
- Have launched the “new vertical” product.
- Execute a series of A/B experiments to increase usage and success of the new product.
- Grow and mentor your team, raising the bar on engineering quality, experimentation rigor, and operational excellence.

## Who You Are
- **0->1 Builder**: Engineering managers with a track record of building new products from scratch.
- **Talent magnet**: Someone who can quickly pull together a team to build the “new vertical” product.
- You move fast, know how to balance innovation vs reuse, and deliver clear business results.
- **Hands-on engineering leader**: Comfortable reading and writing code in modern stacks (e.g., React Native, BFF/full-stack web, GraphQL), and you use that fluency to coach, review, and set technical direction.
- **Experiment-driven operator**: Think in terms of hypotheses, sample sizes, and decision rules, and you can run a dense A/B experimentation roadmap without sacrificing quality.
- **Systems and UX thinker**: See how architecture, API design, and client performance shape real-world member experiences—and you can align cross-functional partners around trade-offs.
- **Inclusive team builder**: Create clear expectations, give direct feedback, and foster a culture where engineers can do the best work of their careers.

## Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience managing a team of ~5+ engineers in a fast-paced, product-focused environment.
- **AI-native development**: Expertise using tools like Cursor, Claude Code, or similar AI agents as development resources to drastically improve the pace of experimentation, with opinions on prompting, agent review, and harness engineering.
- Strong React Native, mobile, or client-side engineering background — or equivalent depth in a BFF/full-stack web context with a track record of shipping member-facing UI at scale.
- Experience owning and evolving a major product surface end-to-end — from architecture and UX through experimentation and production reliability.
- Demonstrated ability to design, run, and interpret A/B experiments, including comfort reasoning about sample sizes, interference effects, and decision rules.

## Preferred Qualifications
- **React Native**: Experience building or leading teams in large React Native codebases, including client performance, render optimization, and app architecture patterns.
- **Server-Driven UI**: Familiarity with SDUI patterns and the trade-offs of moving layout and presentation logic from client to server.
- **Platform mindset**: History operating a shared product surface that other teams extend—defining extension contracts, managing inbound requests, and protecting stability.
- **GraphQL & modern stacks**: Familiarity with GraphQL (caching, BFF patterns, client-driven data-fetching performance), plus working knowledge of Python, TypeScript/Node.js, AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SQS, SNS, SageMaker), and modern DevOps practices.
- **Regulated environments**: Experience working within healthcare (HIPAA) or other highly regulated domains involving sensitive member data.

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