Hinge Health is looking to lead the engineering team behind their accounts platform, which handles identity, accounts, authentication, and permissions for all users across web, mobile, and APIs. This platform has stringent reliability, security, and privacy requirements, and the role involves ensuring seamless, compliant access at scale.
Requirements
- 4+ years building and operating secure, highly available backend systems with modern languages (e.g., Go, Java, TypeScript/Node, Python)
- Experience building distributed systems and cloud-based technologies (e.g., gRPC, Protobuf, Temporal, Docker/Kubernetes, and AWS)
- Strong grasp of relational data modeling and transactional integrity (Postgres or similar)
- Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, CCPA)
- Experience with AI technologies for software design and coding assistance
- Golang, gRPC, AWS, Postgres, Redis, and Temporal
- trunk-based CI/CD
Responsibilities
- Drive the strategy, architecture, and roadmap for accounts: identity models, authentication, authorization, session and device management, account recovery, delegated administration, and audit trails.
- Deliver simple, reliable, secure account experiences across web, mobile, and APIs with clear SLOs for availability, latency, and correctness.
- Integrate and/or build IAM capabilities using industry protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML) and standards (e.g., SCIM for provisioning) where appropriate.
- Raise the engineering bar via design reviews, code reviews, technical roadmaps, threat modeling, post-incident reviews, and high-quality documentation.
- Establish high-signal metrics and feedback loops for reliability, performance, and customer outcomes; use observability to drive continuous improvement.
- Apply AI and automation for provisioning, anomaly detection, access reviews, and reliability tooling.
- Manage capacity, technical debt, and operational excellence; make clear build-vs-buy decisions for identity components and vendors.
Other
- Manage and grow a team of 6+ engineers, guide the technical vision and roadmap, and stay close to the code through reviews and occasional contributions (~15%).
- Hire, mentor, and grow engineers toward senior/staff levels; foster an inclusive, high-performance culture and sustainable on-call practices.
- Employees in hybrid roles are required to be in the office 3 days per week, for the full 8 hours of a typical business day.
- The San Francisco office has a dog-friendly workplace program.
- Background in healthcare, payments, or other regulated technology industries
