Staff Software Engineer- Backend
The Staff Software Engineer will lead the development of scalable media and AI-driven content pipelines for Hinge Health's healthcare platform. This hands-on role involves designing backend systems, mentoring engineers, and integrating generative AI into production workflows using technologies like Node.js, TypeScript, and Python.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru-HQ
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Staff
- Employment
- Internship
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Backend
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related technical field
- 10+ years of non-internship full time professional software development experience
- 4+ years of experience with at least one software programming language
- 4+ years of experience in the full software development life cycle
- 3+ years of work experience with react JS and Node JS/ Typescript
- 1+ years of experience in mentoring and leading junior team members
- Experience with using AI tools such as Github copilot, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph
- Experience delivering large software projects or features in a production environment
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, JavaScript, etc.)
Nice to have
- Platform-as-product mindset
- Strong backend and distributed-systems fundamentals
- Experience integrating large language models or generative AI services into production
- Experience defining and maintaining SLOs and SLAs
- Experience improving observability through metrics, structured logs, and traces
- Experience with headless CMS integrations, webhook-driven systems, or publishing pipelines
- Experience with durable workflow orchestration systems such as Temporal
- Experience with media processing tools such as ffmpeg, adaptive bitrate video, or text-to-speech
- Experience with event streaming, such as Kafka, and CI/CD automation
- Experience working in healthcare or regulated environments
Full description
The Opportunity
The Content Platform team builds the shared systems that help Hinge Health create, manage, enrich, localize, publish, search, and deliver content across treatment experiences. The platform supports assets such as video, audio, images, captions, and text used by applications including Phoenix, Carehub, and onboarding experiences.
The team is extending the platform to make media and content workflows more scalable, observable, and self-service. This includes automated enrichment, localization, quality validation, asset lifecycle management, and AI-assisted content generation for exercise therapy and other treatment experiences.
We are looking for a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership for the next generation of media and AI content pipelines. You will work across service boundaries to turn complex content operations into reliable, reusable platform capabilities.
You will design and ship systems that coordinate media processing, AI-generated audio and video assets, captions, localization, publishing, and quality control. You will help shape the platform architecture, make difficult trade-offs explicit, and build mechanisms that allow partner teams and content creators to move faster with less operational risk.
This is a hands-on Staff Engineer role. You will write production code, lead architecture and design reviews, participate in operational response, and coach engineers toward stronger technical ownership.
What You'll Accomplish
- Deliver large projects that introduce new product capabilities, often acting as a maintainer for key code repositories.
- Break down complex problems into manageable tasks, ensuring steady and predictable delivery while identifying and resolving root causes of incidents.
- Collaborate with your team to roadmap and execute ambitious technical strategies, balancing short-term and long-term trade-offs.
- Mentor and support junior engineers, providing thoughtful code reviews and real-time pairing.
- Integrate and leverage AI technologies to automate processes and enhance product features, contributing to Hinge Health’s AI-driven care platform.
- Proactively improve the maintainability, availability, and performance of the team’s features, and contribute to the team’s overall architecture and developer tooling.
- Communicate technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical partners, and document solutions for future reference.
Hinge Health Hybrid Model
We believe that remote work and in-person work have their own advantages and disadvantages, and we want to be able to leverage the best of both worlds. Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days/week.