# Staff Software Engineer - Backend

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** React, Node.js, TypeScript, Python, Java, JavaScript, LangChain, LangGraph, Github Copilot, Cursor, Distributed Systems, Temporal, Ffmpeg, Kafka
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Lead the architecture and delivery of scalable media and AI content platforms, including processing, localization, publishing, and quality workflows. The hands-on role requires 10+ years of software development experience, strong backend and distributed-systems expertise, and proficiency with React and Node.js/TypeScript.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for scalable media and AI content pipelines.
- Design and ship systems for media processing, AI-generated audio and video assets, captions, localization, publishing, and quality control.
- Shape platform architecture and make explicit short- and long-term technical trade-offs.
- Deliver large projects and maintain key code repositories.
- Break down complex problems, resolve incident root causes, and improve maintainability, availability, and performance.
- Roadmap and execute technical strategies with cross-functional teams.
- Mentor engineers through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance.
- Integrate AI technologies into workflows and product features.
- Improve developer tooling, observability, reliability, and operational practices.
- Communicate technical ideas and document solutions.

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 10+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience.
- 4+ years of experience with at least one programming language.
- 4+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- 3+ years of experience with React JS and Node.js/TypeScript.
- Experience mentoring and leading junior team members and contributing to planning and decision-making.
- Experience delivering large production software projects or features.
- Proficiency in a modern programming language such as Python, Java, or JavaScript.

## Nice-to-haves
- Platform-as-a-product mindset and developer experience practices.
- Backend and distributed-systems fundamentals, including latency, throughput, availability, capacity, backpressure, consistency, and resilience.
- Production integration of large language models or generative AI services, including evaluations, validation, observability, and failure handling.
- SLOs, SLAs, error budgets, service-health metrics, alerting, on-call practices, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Metrics, structured logs, traces, dashboards, actionable alerts, cache design, database performance, query and index tuning, connection pools, and capacity management.
- Headless CMS integrations, webhooks, vendor adapters, content delivery networks, or publishing pipelines.
- Durable workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal.
- Media processing with FFmpeg, adaptive bitrate video, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, or WebVTT captions.
- Event streaming with Kafka and CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions.
- Healthcare, privacy-sensitive, regulated, or high-trust environments.
- Mentoring senior engineers or serving as a technical lead for a platform, migration, or cross-functional launch.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Group Medical Coverage, Group Term Life Insurance, and Group Personal Accident Insurance.
- Lifestyle stipend and learning and development opportunities.
- Discounted company stock through an employee stock purchase plan.
- Hybrid schedule requiring three days per week in the office (Monday through Wednesday).

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