# Staff Software Engineer, Growth

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $192k – $288k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Python, TypeScript, AWS, Apache Kafka, DynamoDB, Node.js, Nestjs, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Redis, Datadog, Sentry, React
**Posted:** 2026-03-05

> Staff Software Engineer architects scalable event-driven backend systems for growth integrations with health systems using Python, TypeScript, AWS, Kafka. Requires 8+ years backend experience, 4+ years event-driven and AWS, bachelor's degree.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Architect scalable, event-driven backend systems integrating with hospital systems and health plans.
- Audit current integration architecture and ship secure, scalable features.
- Lead architectural discussions, design end-to-end solutions using Apache Kafka and DynamoDB.
- Mentor junior engineers, improve system observability with Datadog and Sentry.
- Own long-term technical strategy for growth platform, optimize for massive scale.

## Basic Qualifications
- **8+ years** software engineering experience building scalable backend systems and microservices.
- **4+ years** building event-driven systems.
- **4+ years** AWS services (EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB) and cloud architecture.
- Strong backend technologies: Node.js/TypeScript, Python, relational/non-relational databases, messaging/streaming.
- Collaboration with web/mobile frontends (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React/Vue.js/Angular).
- Hands-on with generative AI tools for development workflows.

## Preferred Qualifications
- **5+ years** TypeScript, NestJS, GraphQL, Node.js, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis.
- Experience designing integration-heavy systems with external partners.
- Frontend fluency (React Native, React).
- Observability tools: Datadog, Sentry.
- System design, microservices, CI/CD pipelines.

## Compensation
- Annual salary range: $192,000 - $288,000, plus equity and benefits.

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