Principal Engineer (Fullstack/Backend)
Hims & HersBase Salary
$240k - $280k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing systems in alignment with business strategy.
- Lead cross-organizational initiatives addressing long-term scale, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities.
- Establish patterns and frameworks that support quality, resilience, and operational excellence.
- Serve as an authority on design decisions and drive alignment across engineering and product teams.
- Drive organization-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development norms.
- Mentor senior technical leaders and strengthen engineering capabilities, rigor, and talent development.
- Clarify direction in ambiguous situations, remove organizational blockers, and accelerate strategic execution.
- Translate customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions.
- Design systems and team boundaries for sustainable growth and drive early investment in observability, migrations, and reliability.
Requirements
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep architectural expertise and a record of delivering production backend systems at scale.
- Proven ability to influence technical strategy and deliver cross-organizational technical initiatives at group or organizational level.
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Go and deep understanding of system design for scale and performance.
- Full-stack capability with frontend proficiency in React, Next, and GraphQL.
- Experience introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across multiple teams.
- Proficiency with CircleCI, GitHub, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and observability tools such as Datadog.
- Ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment across functions.
- Experience translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, high-impact technical solutions.
- Track record of improving developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability.
- Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence across functions.
- Experience coaching and growing senior engineering talent and shaping hiring and development practices.
Benefits
- Flexible/remote work approach
- Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days
- Medical, dental, vision, and parental leave benefits
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- 401k with employer matching contribution
- Offsite team retreats
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About Hims & Hers
Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (better known as Hims & Hers) is a multi-specialty telehealth platform building a virtual front door to the healthcare system. We connect consumers to licensed healthcare professionals, enabling people to access high-quality medical care—from wherever is most convenient—for numerous conditions related to sexual health, hair care, mental health, skincare, primary care, and more. With products and services available across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., Hims & Hers is on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We believe how you feel in your body and mind transforms how you show up in life. That’s why we’re building a future where nothing stands in the way of harnessing this power. We normalize health & wellness challenges—and innovate on their solutions—to make feeling happy and healthy easy to achieve. No two people are the same, so we provide access to personalized care designed for results. At our core, our mission is deeply personal—because we too are customers. In January 2021, the company was listed on the NYSE and is traded under the ticker symbol “HIMS”. To learn more about our brand and offerings, you can visit hims.com and forhers.com.