Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and optimize high-performance, scalable systems that power AI-driven solutions.
- Design resilient, serverless architectures in a TypeScript and AWS environment.
- Develop developer-friendly APIs and SDKs that enable seamless integration across platforms.
- Build and refine high-speed data processing pipelines that drive clinical-grade AI insights.
Requirements
- AWS & TypeScript Expert – Comfortable making infrastructure decisions, optimizing cloud deployments, and managing scalable architectures.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems that power real-time, AI-driven applications.
- Strong experience in building and optimizing developer-facing SDKs and APIs.
- Skilled in real-time data processing pipelines and optimizing system performance at scale.
- A thoughtful approach to building secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.
Benefits
- Full autonomy to build, ship, and see the results – moving from idea to production in hours or days.
- Work in a culture where bureaucracy isn't tolerated, fluff is frowned upon, and trust is the driving force.
Work Arrangement
On-site — San Francisco, Rincon Hill
Team
Structure: high-performing team of top engineers and AI researchers
About Hike Medical
- Hike Medical is building the defining company in musculoskeletal care. We sit at the intersection of AI, robotics, and healthcare, operating across three product lines: a proprietary AI-vision platform that turns a 30 second web-based foot scan into custom 3D-printed orthotics, an AI agent platform that automates the entire DME workflow from pre-visit processing to claims and revenue cycle, and SoleForge, our vertically integrated 3D printing factory producing custom medical devices at a scale the industry has never seen.
- Our customers are both the largest employers on earth and the biggest companies in orthotics and prosthetics.
- On the clinical side, we're live across the industry's largest national providers.
- On the employer side, Fortune 50 companies trust us to protect their on-their-feet workforces.
- But custom insoles are just the wedge. Our long-term vision is bionics: AI-designed, robotically manufactured orthotic and prosthetic devices at scale, replacing a fragmented, manual industry that hasn't changed in decades.
- Insoles today, full DME tomorrow, bionics by 2040.
- Read the full vision at bionics2040.com.
- We've stealthily raised $22M through Seed and Series A backed by top-tier investors who invested early in companies like OpenAI, Anduril, and Mercury.
- We run a fast, results first, high ownership culture out of our new SF Rincon Hill office.
- If you want to work on problems that sit at the frontier of AI, manufacturing, and healthcare, this is the place.
The Role
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll build and ship the core systems behind Hike’s AI healthcare platform.
- As the backbone of Hike's high-growth, mission-driven platform, you’ll design scalable services, implement production AI, and deliver user experiences that improve patient outcomes.
- From day one, you’ll have real autonomy and clear impact on transforming the US healthcare system.
Why This Opportunity is Career-Defining
- Your code will help people move without pain.
- You will have full autonomy to build, ship, and see the results - moving from idea to production in hours or days.
- You’ll join a high-performing team of top engineers and AI researchers, where every hire makes a massive impact.
- You'll work in a culture where bureaucracy isn't tolerated, fluff is frowned upon, and trust is the driving force.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Technical Skills AWS & TypeScript Expert – Comfortable making infrastructure decisions, optimizing cloud deployments, and managing scalable architectures.
- Experience designing, building, and maintaining backend systems that power real-time, AI-driven applications.
- Strong experience in building and optimizing developer-facing SDKs and APIs.
- Skilled in real-time data processing pipelines and optimizing system performance at scale.
- A thoughtful approach to building secure, resilient, and fault-tolerant systems.
Helpful Characteristics
- Product-Minded Engineer – You think about how your work impacts real users.
- Strong Communicator – You clearly explain your ideas, challenge assumptions, and collaborate across engineering, AI, and product teams.
- Thrives in Collaboration – You push back, ask tough questions, and elevate the team.
- Driven to Ship – You want full control over your work, from architecture to deployment, and you’re eager to move fast.
- Mission-Focused – You’re not here to optimize ad clicks. You want to build technology that changes lives.
Hiring Manager
Nik Varshney (CTO) – LinkedIn
Additional Information
- Code will help people move without pain.
- Opportunity to work on problems at the frontier of AI, manufacturing, and healthcare.
- High ownership culture.
- Company is live across the largest national providers in orthotics and prosthetics.
- Fortune 50 companies trust the company to protect their on-their-feet workforces.