Blog

Deep-dives in engineering, product, and design from the people building here.

Three-step diagram: the server says what to show, the app decides how, and the member sees the Explore screen on a phone

Oct 6, 2026 • 8 min read

From feature to platform: lessons from scaling server-driven UI

What we learned building Configurable Layout, our server-driven UI system, into a reusable platform for a growing mobile engineering organization.

By Amanda Correa

A five-step flow diagram: Parameter Configs and Device Fleet feed into Massive Results, which the Tuning Agent & Orchestrator evaluates in a feedback loop to produce the Optimal Output.

Aug 4, 2026 • 7 min read

Cutting latency by up to 15% across our full device fleet, using AI to crunch data and adjust algorithms

We built an AI-automated testing harness to fine-tune latency parameters across hundreds of devices and platforms.

By Sacha Terzian

Enso wearable device placed on a person's forehead

Platform

Aug 3, 2026 • 7 min read

Paying down the innovation tax: how migraine shipped in months not years

A year of platform work turned Hinge Health's next clinical launch into a configuration exercise — that's how migraine shipped in months, not years.

By Matthew Gray

Holographic "Ship it!" stickers scattered across a table

Design

Jul 2, 2026 • 7 min read

How 100% of our designers shipped production code within one month

Hinge Health set a goal: every designer ships a production PR within a month. Here's what that took, and how it reshaped what design means at the company.

By Nima Habibi-Beltijeh

Diagram of the multi-stage Docker build lifecycle used in the distroless migration

Security

Jun 24, 2026 • 5 min read

How we eliminated 80% of container vulnerabilities without patching a single one

How Hinge Health cut ~80% of container CVEs and reached near-zero OS-level attack surface — by switching to distroless base images instead of patching.

By Urmila Khichada, Madhuprasad B M

Culture

Jun 12, 2026 • 6 min read

Staff engineers at Hinge Health: who we hire, who we don't

"Staff engineer" means ten different things at ten different companies. Here's what it means at Hinge Health — the four archetypes we hire, the four we don't, and what success looks like in year one.

By Felix Pageau

Hinge Health engineers reviewing clinical-grade computer vision architecture and patient data system diagrams on office monitors and whiteboards, next to a list of open staff roles

Culture

Jun 8, 2026 • 5 min read

Staff Software Engineering at Hinge Health

What it means to be a hands-on staff engineer at Hinge Health, and the open staff roles building AI-powered care for millions.

By Liz Morgan

Hinge Health engineering leadership team

Culture

May 12, 2026 • 7 min read

Assembling a World-Class Engineering Leadership Team

Over the past 6+ months I personally hired four senior engineering leaders from Pinterest, Netflix, Meta, Uber, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Coupang, and Nextdoor; all hands-on, AI-native, and drawn to the mission.

By Gabriel Mecklenburg

3D pose-estimation skeleton overlaid on a man performing a lunge exercise at home, guided by an on-screen video demonstration

Mar 16, 2026 • 8 min read

Tracking Progress: The Challenges of Precisely Measuring Movement from a Phone

How we defined clinical accuracy thresholds and re-engineered our computer vision stack to bring lab-grade range of motion measurement to members in their own homes.

By Caroline Rougier, Colin Brown