Hybrid Senior Software Engineer – Search

at Hinge Health

• Job title: Senior Software Engineer – Search
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $158,400 - $237,600 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Docker, ElasticSearch, GRPC, Java, Kubernetes, Python, Go
• Location requirements: Hybrid, San Francisco, United States

About the role

• Senior Software Engineer creating search infrastructure for Hinge Health’s health solutions. Focusing on geospatial search and AI integration to improve patient care outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Audit our current provider and facility discovery architecture, identifying gaps in geospatial search precision and entity resolution accuracy
• Build relationships with product, design, and data engineering teams to understand upstream data sources and downstream user needs
• Deliver your first search optimization—improving relevance tuning or query performance for a high-traffic lookup scenario
• Design and launch geospatial search capabilities using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch (radius, bounding-box, polygon-based queries) that scale to millions of records
• Extend entity resolution pipelines to deduplicate and reconcile provider data across multiple upstream sources, reducing duplicate records by 30%+
• Own the async data ingestion pipeline for a critical data source, ensuring search indexes stay fresh and accurate
• Act as the code repository maintainer for the search and knowledge graph services, setting technical standards and mentoring junior engineers
• Drive technical strategy for the team, balancing tradeoffs between search relevance, latency, and infrastructure cost
• Integrate AI technologies to automate entity matching and improve search personalization

Requirements

• 5+ years of full-time software development experience building production systems at scale
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch, including index design, mapping configuration, query DSL, and relevance tuning
• Strong understanding of geospatial search (geo_point/geo_shape types, distance-based queries, bounding box filters) and entity resolution (matching, merging, and deduplicating records across disparate data sources)
• Proficiency in modern backend languages (Golang, Python, Java, or similar) and cloud-based services (gRPC, Docker/Kubernetes, AWS)

Benefits

• 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 with stipends to support your growth.