Staff Software Engineer, Growth at Hinge Health
San Francisco, CA
$197,000–$275,000
Jul 15, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level full-stack engineering role focused on building and scaling a member referral platform, including incentive mechanics, personalized referral flows, and experimentation infrastructure. The work spans frontend, backend services, and data pipelines, with close collaboration alongside product and data science teams. Best suited to engineers with a background in growth or incentive systems and experience operationalizing ML models in production.
Senior level · 4+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3,800 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (mobile application developers). range 2,250–5,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The posting's Basic Qualifications gate on a Bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in CS/Engineering, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
The advertised title is 'Staff Engineer', but the Basic Qualifications require only 4+ years of experience and hands-on full-stack work — scope and requirements are more consistent with a Senior-level role than a true Staff/cross-team technical authority. Seniority is therefore set to Senior.
The full-stack technology list (React, React Native, TypeScript, NestJS, GraphQL, Node.js, databases, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis) appears in both the 'What We're Looking For' narrative and the Preferred Qualifications section. The JD explicitly says 'we don't expect a perfect match on every technology, but you should be fluent in most.' React, React Native, TypeScript, and Node.js are also called out in the Basic Qualifications as concrete examples of required hands-on experience, so those four are marked required; the remaining stack items (NestJS, GraphQL, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Redis) appear only in the preferred/narrative sections and are marked preferred.
A/B testing and ML model serving are listed under Preferred Qualifications and are marked preferred accordingly.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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