# Staff Software Engineer, GI

**Company:** [Hinge Health](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/hinge-health)
**Location:** Unspecified
**Role:** Fullstack Engineering
**Salary:** $197k – $296k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, Go, GraphQL, AWS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Sqs, Amazon Sns, Amazon Sagemaker, AI Agents, Computer Vision, CI/CD, Automated Testing
**Posted:** 2026-08-06

> Build and launch Hinge Health’s new GI digital care product from scratch, contributing across mobile, backend, AI, integrations, and experimentation. The role requires staff-level technical leadership, hands-on React Native development, mentoring, and a bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of software engineering experience.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define the GI product line from scratch and help launch an end-to-end digital care experience.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Marketing to align strategy, experimentation roadmaps, and success metrics.
- Lead the technical roadmap across AI systems, UX interfaces, business logic middleware, hardware integration, and clinician support workflows.
- Develop prototypes and proofs of concept for challenging product capabilities.
- Build the GI product as a minimum lovable product and iterate using real member feedback after launch.
- Mentor and pair with engineers through best practices, code quality, experimentation, code reviews, and design discussions.
- Establish engineering practices for CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, client performance, observability, reliability, accessibility, and scalability.
- Develop the most challenging software elements across the product roadmap.
- Drive cross-team initiatives that improve the end-to-end user journey.
- Set technical direction, contribute to production code, and lead through technical judgment and influence without people management.
- Run experiments, interpret results, and use data to guide roadmap decisions.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of practical software engineering experience building and shipping user-facing applications in production.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or foreign equivalent.
- 2+ years of hands-on React Native experience building mobile applications at scale.
- Experience building brand-new products from scratch.
- Strong proficiency with TypeScript/JavaScript, React Native, and modern mobile development tooling.
- Experience working across the technology stack, including mobile applications, backend services, AI systems, and integrations.
- Ability to collaborate with product, design, and data/analytics partners.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and grow engineers through technical guidance.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with large React Native codebases, TypeScript/Node.js, Go, GraphQL, and AWS services such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, and SageMaker.
- Experience with client-performance tooling, render optimization, DevOps, and application architecture patterns.
- Experience integrating product surfaces across platforms owned by different teams.
- Experience running A/B or multivariate tests on core product surfaces.
- Experience developing consumer-facing applications used by millions or billions of users.
- Experience in healthcare, HIPAA, or other regulated environments involving sensitive data.
- Familiarity with AI agents, computer vision, medical device integration, BFF/full-stack web development, and React Native.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Annual base salary: $197,000–$296,000.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Gender-affirming care, family and fertility planning support, and travel reimbursements when healthcare is unavailable locally.
- Traditional or Roth 401(k) retirement plan.
- Hybrid work model with three days per week in the San Francisco office; remote work on other days during core business hours.

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