Director of Engineering, Core App

Company: Hinge Health, Inc.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 28, 2023

Job Description:

One in two people experience debilitating back, neck, shoulder, or joint pain - but traditional treatments have failed to meet their needs. Physical therapy can be expensive and hard to access; appointments often involve long commutes and missed work. Making matters worse, unresolved pain can trigger the overuse of opioids and surgeries.Join us in reimagining healthcare from the ground up. We're making high-quality care accessible by pairing wearable sensors and computer vision with a world-class clinical team. Hinge Health puts a digital clinic in every member's pocket. Now millions of people can access personalized digital care from a physical therapist, guidance on behavior change from a health coach, and expert consultations with an orthopedic surgeon. With a single app and wearable technology like our Enso device, we're helping to reduce pain, surgeries, and opioid use.Work From AnywhereHinge Health employees have the flexibility to work remotely in hubs across the United States.About the RoleAs Director of Engineering, Core App, you will lead six full stack product teams (about 40 engineers) rapidly evolving Hinge Health's core product capabilities. Partnering with peers in product and design, you will maintain both an ambitious strategic roadmap, and a healthy Agile culture of iterative, cross-functional delivery to execute on it. This year, your teams will re-architect 1st generation platforms to eliminate both scaling and functionality bottlenecks. Your thoughtful coaching and goal-setting will support a strong bench of engineering managers-both as individuals and as a loosely-coupled, highly-aligned team of teams.In addition, you will be the Head of Platform Engineering, responsible for setting standards of performance, availability, and operational excellence for back end services across all teams (even outside your reporting line). In this role, you will partner with the Head of Application Engineering, the Head of AI/ML, and a team of Principal Engineers to accelerate development on a high-velocity, low-dependency Innersource-friendly technical landscape. #LI-JJ1DESCRIPTION OF AN IDEAL CANDIDATE

• You have led teams of 30+ for several years in a fast-growing, fast-moving company. You have scaled high-availability platforms 10-100x while making them demonstrably easier to use and contribute to. You have recruited a diverse team of brilliant technologists who will forever cite you as the leader who brought out their best ideas, best work, and most rewarding growth. You have made some serious mistakes, and been made by them. You are an excellent writer and an avid reader. You are energized by collaborating on hard problems, achieving extraordinary results, and serving internal customers and end users. You have a strong bias for action, and are adept at unlocking your teams with de-risking techniques and frameworks for self-disruptive innovation. You know how to foster a climate of psychological safety so your teams can hold themselves and each other accountable to their own high standards, and you practice radical candor to deliver hard feedback-with kindness. WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH
  • You will guide the evolution of Hinge Health's modular, loosely-coupled, and easily extensible core tech.
  • You will align Core App teams behind your clear, measurable North Star vision
  • You will bake well-documented patterns and best practices into CI/CD automation to keep Hinge Health services uniformly, fast, highly-available, and deeply observable
  • You will establish and maintain a Platform Engineering function that efficiently absorbs cross-cutting upgrades, and maintains a high-velocity "golden path" to production
  • You will provide focus and commercial impact with a 12-18 month strategic roadmap that blends incremental improvements, extended capabilities, and big bets on radical innovations.WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
    • Vision You align and inspire your teams to work backwards from vividly-rendered ambitious goals.
    • Impact You focus the efforts of several teams to deliver innovative new user capabilities that the larger organization can immediately build upon and extend.
    • Agile Delivery You deliver major system changes incrementally and efficiently
    • Hiring You can attract a diverse bench of tech's most talented engineers to join your team.
    • Talent development You coach managers and engineering leaders to operate at the top of their license, leaning into their strengths.
    • Org scaling You proactively partner with cross-functional peers to continuously improve (or remove) processes.
    • Cultural Stewardship You systematically raise the bar for inclusivity, psychological safety, radical candor and extreme ownership within and beyond your part of the organization.
    • Written Communication You express complex technical ideas in plainspoken prose and author persuasive arguments for big bets. WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT US
      • Inclusive healthcare and benefits: On top of comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, we offer employees and their family members help with gender-affirming care, tools for family and fertility planning, and travel reimbursements if healthcare isn't available where you live.
        • Planning for the future: Start saving for the future with our traditional or roth 401k retirement plan options which include a 2% company match.
          • Modern life stipends: Manage your own learning and development budget, use the mental health to support therapy costs, and lifestyle stipends to cover your favorite wellness services, and work-from-home equipment.
            • Flexible vacation and paid time off: Employees have flexibility to choose when, how, and why they take time off to rest and recharge. Exempt employees can take advantage of our flexible pto program. Nonexempt employees can utilize up to two weeks of sick time and up to 17 days of vacation per year, including mental health days.
              • Other compensation: At Hinge Health, we want every employee to be invested and rewarded in the future success of the company. All full-time positions are eligible for equity.$252,000 - $378,000 a yearAbout Hinge Health:LinkedIn recently named Hinge Health one of the Top 50 Startups. Forbes, Fast Company, and Inc. have also recognized our technology, innovation, and culture.Since our founding in 2014, we've raised more than $800 million from leading investors, including Coatue and Tiger Global. We work with 1000 customers across every industry and the public sector - including Salesforce, Verizon, and the State of New Jersey - to give more than 23 million people access to the care they need. We're positioned to continue leading the market with unmatched investments in clinical research, care innovation, machine learning, AI, and computer vision.Diversity and inclusion:We're committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve. Visit to learn more about what moves us.Hinge Health is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We make employment decisions without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.We provide reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you feel you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, let us know by reaching out to your recruiter.Disclaimer:There continues to be a significant increase in phishing attempts across all industries where fraudsters are impersonating real employees and sending fictitious job offers to applicants in a scheme to obtain sensitive information. Please note that we will never ask for your financial information at any part of the interview process including the post-offer stage, and will only correspond through @hingehealth.com domain email addresses.If you encounter any suspicious activity, we recommend you cease all communication with the individual and consider reporting them to the US FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center. If you would like to verify the legitimacy of an email you received from our recruiting team, please forward it to security@hingehealth.com. *Please do not send resumes via email*If you're interested - we'd love to hear from you.

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