Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We are redefining healthcare by putting the customer first and delivering access to care that is affordable, accessible, and personal, from diagnosis to treatment to delivery. No two people are the same, so we provide access to personalized care designed for results. By normalizing health & wellness challenges and innovating on their solutions, we’re making better health outcomes easier to achieve.

Hims & Hers is a public company, traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “HIMS.” To learn more about the brand and offerings, you can visit hims.com/about and hims.com/how-it-works . For information on the company’s outstanding benefits, culture, and its talent-first flexible/remote work approach, see below and visit www.hims.com/careers-professionals.

About the Role

Hims & Hers is on a mission to empower people to live healthier lives. We’re hiring Staff Software Engineers across several of our platform teams. Each team builds the backend systems and web experiences that drive patient acquisition, retention, engagement, and satisfaction.

In this highly visible, high-impact role, you’ll own the architecture of core systems in your domain and directly influence key business metrics across our platform.

You Will

Lead the design and architecture of scalable and performant backend solutions that meet product requirements and enhance the experience of the platform you support

Own the architecture of core systems within your domain, including correctness, state management, and workflow orchestration across the teams and systems you integrate with

Partner closely with engineering teams across the organization to drive cross-functional technical initiatives and ensure platform decisions scale across the organization

Provide mentorship on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards

Advocate for the team’s technical needs within the broader engineering organization

Participate in product discovery and validation through prototypes and experiments

Partner with product and design to ensure platform capabilities support an intuitive end-to-end customer experience

Drive strategic technical decisions to improve security, scalability, and performance

Break down complex projects into actionable tasks

Establish and enforce consistent coding and testing standards

Initiate efforts to reduce technical debt and enhance workflow efficiency

Implement tools and processes for monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization

Implement analytics and monitoring to demonstrate how engineering solutions directly impact key customer and business KPIs

Analyze metrics and user feedback to continuously improve the platform

Maintain thorough technical documentation

Conduct code reviews and facilitate knowledge-sharing initiatives

You Have

8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role

Proven experience in building platform infrastructure that drives customer retention, engagement, and satisfaction, preferably in a cloud environment (AWS)

Proficiency in back-end technologies (Spring, Java, Kotlin, PostgreSQL)

Demonstrated ability to optimize web service metrics (speed, reliability, etc.)

Experience with building workflows (Temporal), monitoring (Datadog), experimentation frameworks (Growthbook, Optimizely, etc.), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub Actions), etc.

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically

Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams

Capable of prioritizing multiple projects in order to meet goals without management oversight

Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, NextJS, GraphQL, TypeScript)

You will be successful in the role if you are someone who

Identifies clarity in ambiguous situations, acting as a stabilizing influence during uncertainty