Staff Software Engineer (Backend)

The role

Staff Software Engineers will lead the design and architecture of scalable backend solutions and core systems. You will drive technical initiatives, provide mentorship, and partner with product and design teams to improve platform performance and customer experience.

What you will do

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable and performant backend solutions
• Own the architecture of core systems within your domain
• Partner with engineering teams to drive cross-functional technical initiatives
• Provide mentorship on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
• Advocate for the team's technical needs
• Participate in product discovery and validation through prototypes and experiments
• Partner with product and design to ensure platform capabilities support 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

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience
• 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
• 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
• 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)

Nice to have

• preferably in a cloud environment (AWS)

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity compensation
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays
• Quarterly mental health days
• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision
• Parental leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• Offsite team retreats

About the company

Hims & Hers is a health and wellness platform on a mission to help the world feel great through better health. It is a public company traded on the NYSE.