Staff Software Engineer, Home Pod (React Native)

Ovii's Interpretation of the Role

Staff Software Engineer leading the Home experience on Hinge Health's React Native app. Owns product direction, drives experimentation, and mentors the pod while delivering high‑impact mobile features.

Role Snapshot

• Senior mobile engineer (React Native)
• Technical leader for Home pod
• Mentor for junior engineers
• Experimentation‑driven product owner
• Hybrid work (San Francisco HQ)

Must-Have Requirements

• React Native
• TypeScript/JavaScript
• Mobile app development
• software engineering
• mobile application development
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or foreign equivalent)

Nice-to-Have Signals

• Server‑driven UI
• A/B testing / experimentation
• Mentoring & code review
• High‑traffic surface experience
• Backend services familiarity (Node/TS, GraphQL)
• Healthcare domain experience
• server‑driven UI
• experimentation
• mentoring
• high‑traffic product surfaces
• healthcare
• Healthcare

Work Setup

• Location: San Francisco, USA
• Work mode: HYBRID
• Remote scope: UNSPECIFIED
• Travel: occasional off‑site/on‑site events
• Employment type: Full-Time

Eligibility Gates

• Visa sponsorship: unknown

Not Specified in JD

• Visa sponsorship
• Salary range
• Remote eligibility
• Security clearance
• Coding test

What You'll Likely Work On

• Own and evolve the core Home experience on the React Native client, using data‑driven experiments to improve conversion.
• Define technical direction and roadmap for the Home pod, collaborating with product, design, data, and backend teams.
• Improve server‑driven UI architecture, APIs, and configuration models to enable fast, reliable updates.
• Ship performance, reliability, and polish improvements while raising testing, observability, and accessibility standards.
• Mentor and pair with junior engineers, fostering mobile best practices and an experimentation mindset.
• Drive cross‑team initiatives that connect Home to sessions, programs, and overall care outcomes.

Good Fit If You Have

• Passionate about mobile UX, animations, and handling edge cases.
• Comfortable designing hypotheses, running A/B tests, and iterating from data.
• Experience with server‑configured UI layers and fast, reliable client experiences.