Director of Engineering, Platform

Hinge Health is finally making it easier to bring expert-recommended care to millions by being the first company to combine wearable-sensor guided exercise therapy with 1-on-1 health coaching, physical therapy, and patient education. 

The Hinge Health Digital Clinic is the #1 musculoskeletal (MSK) solution for employers and health plans. Available to over 300+ enterprise customers including Boeing, Salesforce and US Foods, Hinge Health empowers people to reduce chronic pain, opioid use, and surgeries.

Only Hinge Health has clinically validated outcomes across 4 peer-reviewed studies showing reductions in: chronic pain, opioid use, anxiety, depression, absenteeism, and costly surgeries.

4 in 5 employers with a digital MSK solution partner with Hinge Health. Hinge Health has raised $436M to date and has 500+ employees across our San Francisco, Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, and remote offices. 

We're growing fast and looking for an accomplished technical leader to help us accelerate.

Platform engineers at Hinge Health work on small cross-functional teams. The Hinge Health platform comprises scalable, high-performance, high-availability back-end systems that drive both internal applications and the flagship customer app. Many teams are migrating their business logic out of a healthy Rails monolith into isolated services, mostly in Node using Nest.js.

As the Director of Platform Engineering, you will build and support the management team that enables platform engineers at Hinge Health to do the best work of their careers. You and your team will focus on coaching, professional development, and organizational optimizations to scale a healthy, high-performance culture through hyper-growth.

THINGS YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH

• Build the industry's most enabling engineering management team
• Optimize recruiting, hiring, and onboarding to keep pace with company growth
• Resolve endless growing pains with insightful, systematic solutions
• Ignite a teaching culture and share Hinge Health's insights with the broader tech community
• Establish an internship program that draws the brightest and accelerates their development

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

• Seasoned experience leading and managing a team of software developers, including 2+ years of managing through managers, especially in distributed/remote-first offices
• Strong track record building software applications, with an emphasis on high-availability services, security, and compliance
• Agile expertise, with a strong track record of continuous delivery and the ability to coach others to sustain it
• Demonstrated ability to envision, share, and manage the execution of a high-leverage strategic roadmap
• Data-driven, outcome-oriented servant leadership that attracts the strongest talent and empowers them to do the best work of their career
• Desire to learn, grow and develop as the company grows
• Strong collaboration skills, and a bias toward teamwork
• Clear communication that makes you a signal-enhancing conduit across every boundary you bridge

WHAT YOU’LL LOVE ABOUT US

• Competitive compensation with meaningful stock options
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Disability and Life Insurance (We cover 100% of your premium and 75% for your dependents) 
• FSA/HSA accounts
• Family & fertility benefit through Maven Clinic
• 401K match 
• 3 months paid parental leave
• Professional Development budget 
• Monthly wellness benefit
• Generous mental health stipend
• Noise-cancelling headphones
• Work from home policy
• Opportunity to join a fantastically talented, diverse, and passionate team at a pivotal time in the company’s lifecycle

WHAT SHAPES OUR COMPANY

• Trust: True owner’s mentality. Always keeping an eye on how we can get better as a team and company. 
• Learn-it-all (vs know-it-all): Generalist. Able to quickly learn how to hire & manage in a new area.
• Hustle: Creative problem-solver
• Effective communication: Communicates complex topics in an easy-to-understand way, verbal & written.
• Frugal: Able to drive efficiency throughout the org.

If you're interested - we'd love to hear from you. No recruiters, please. 

Hinge Health is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.  

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

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