Hinge Health
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
San Francisco-HQ · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 9, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience; 2+ years of experience with at least one programming language and across the full software development life cycle.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
About the job
Build and operate reliable backend services and financial workflows for billing, payments, payer integrations, and revenue-critical data.
What you'll do
- Design and evolve services, APIs, data models, and durable workflows for billing and financial systems.
- Improve correctness, traceability, performance, availability, and observability; support systems in production and participate in weekly on-call.
- Collaborate across teams, deliver large projects, mentor junior engineers, and use AI to automate engineering or operational processes.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
- 3+ years of non-internship, full-time professional software development experience; 2+ years with a programming language and across the software development life cycle.
- Experience delivering large production projects and designing and operating backend services, APIs, data models, and asynchronous or distributed workflows.
- Experience with relational databases and integrations where data integrity, failure handling, and observability are important.
Nice to have
- Experience building billing, payments, revenue, accounting, claims, or other financial systems.
- Experience with distributed systems, AI technologies, or mentoring junior engineers.
Pay
$158.4K – $217.8K (base salary)
Tools
Golang, Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, gRPC, AWS, Postgres, Redis
AI focus
Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate engineering and operational processes and enhance product capabilities, with appropriate review and control for financial workflows.
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