Hinge Health · San Francisco-HQ
Skills: Python, Java, Go, AWS, Docker
Sr. SWE - Search --------------------
The Opportunity -------------------
Imagine you're a patient in pain, searching for the right provider who accepts your insurance, is close to home, and specializes in your condition. Now imagine getting it wrong—waiting weeks for an appointment only to discover they can't help you. This role exists to eliminate that frustration.
You'll build the search infrastructure and entity resolution systems that power Hinge Select—our integration of digital and in-person MSK care. As an early team member, you'll architect geospatial search capabilities that help millions of people find the right care, fast. You'll work at the intersection of search infrastructure, data quality, and healthcare—where precision isn't just nice to have, it has real patient impact.
What You'll Accomplish --------------------------
In your first 3 months, you will:
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
In your first 6 months, you will:
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
In your first year, you will:
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, late …truncated… ls…
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