Hinge Health
Staff Engineer/Tech Lead, MSK Verticals
San Francisco-HQ · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 11, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years professional software engineering; 2+ years in each of the specified stack, cloud/containerization, and database/distributed systems areas; 3+ years mentoring or leading engineers.
About the job
Leads technical direction and delivery for new and existing musculoskeletal care programs, building differentiated features and scaling the shared platform.
What you'll do
- Set the team’s technical roadmap and make architectural and prioritization decisions.
- Design and deliver new care programs, then improve reliability, performance, and quality as they scale.
- Partner with Product and other engineering teams; strengthen engineering practices and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship full-time professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years with TypeScript/JavaScript across the stack, including Node.js/NestJS backend and React or React Native frontend.
- 2+ years with cloud platforms and containerization tools; AWS preferred.
- 2+ years with relational databases, distributed systems, and microservices; and 3+ years mentoring or leading engineers and collaborating across functions.
Nice to have
- Direct NestJS or mobile app development experience; multi-team product delivery experience.
- Healthcare/HIPAA or other regulated-industry experience; technical leadership setting architecture and sequencing work.
Pay
$192K – $264K USD base salary
Tools
TypeScript/JavaScript, Node.js, NestJS, React, React Native, AWS, PostgreSQL
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