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Staff Software Engineer, GI

Hinge Health · San Francisco-HQ · Remote

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About Hinge Health

The #1 clinic for joint & muscle pain. Join today and take control of your pain with access to our personalized virtual physical therapy program. Backed by Bessemer and Insight.

About the role

Build the GI product as a minimum lovable product (MLP) delivering a significant & measurable health improvement for members. Talent magnet : someone who is recognized as a leader and other people want to work with.

What they're looking for

  • 0->1 Builder : We are looking for an engineer with a track record of building brand new products from scratch
  • Talent magnet : someone who is recognized as a leader and other people want to work with
  • AI-Driven development : You have been using the latest AI software development techniques (ex: teams of AI Agents) and continuously look for new AI techniques that can improve your productivity
  • You move fast , know how to balance innovation vs reuse, and deliver clear business results
  • Hands-on engineer : You’re reading and writing code across the tech stack (e.g., React Native, BFF/full-stack web, GraphQL, AI Agents, Computer Vision, Medical Device Integration, etc), and you use that fluency to coach, review, and set technical direction
  • Experiment-driven operator : You think in terms of hypotheses, sample sizes, and decision rules, and you can run a dense A/B experimentation roadmap without sacrificing quality
More about this role

Hinge Health is a leader in Digital Physical Therapy, and we’re expanding into new areas of care. In April 2026, we launched our comprehensive Migraine Care Program , extending our digital care platform beyond physical therapy. We’re now building a new team to launch a Gastrointestinal (GI) Care Program. GI conditions affect roughly one in four U.S. adults and drive $135 billion in annual medical spending.

Our planned acquisition of Cylinder Health , a leader in virtual-first digestive healthcare, gives us a strong foundation for entering this market. By combining Cylinder’s clinical expertise and market presence with Hinge Health’s AI-powered care model and technology platform, we can rapidly build a new GI product expected to launch in 2027.

As a Staff Software Engineer for GI, you’ll help shape an end-to-end digital care experience for people living with GI conditions. You’ll lead rapid experiments to validate assumptions, navigate complex technical and product challenges, and turn what you learn into a reliable, scalable product that can improve members’ health at meaningful scale.

At Hinge Health, staff engineers are senior technical contributors who lead through code,...

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