Sr. Software Engineer, Patient Platform (Backend)
Hims & Hers3 months ago
Base Salary
$170k - $190k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and architect scalable, performant backend solutions that meet product requirements.
- Provide technical guidance, mentorship, coaching, and code reviews for engineers.
- Advocate for the team’s technical needs and priorities across the engineering organization.
- Participate in product discovery, feasibility assessment, user-needs exploration, feature definition, and prototype or experiment validation.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate systems and services effectively.
- Shape the technical vision and identify investments that improve security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Break complex projects into actionable tasks and drive successful delivery.
- Implement logging, monitoring, alerting, and other observability practices across the platform.
- Improve engineering workflows, processes, tools, and standards.
- Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify optimization opportunities.
- Document architecture and development processes and contribute to knowledge sharing.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and propose reliability and performance enhancements.
- Track industry trends and recommend innovative technical solutions.
- Assist with interviewing and onboarding new engineers.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience as a software engineer shipping production code.
- At least 3 years of experience designing, developing, and delivering backend distributed systems.
- At least 3 years of experience with microservice architectures.
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, or equivalent professional experience.
- Experience building scalable web applications and services, preferably in a cloud environment.
- Proficiency delivering and hosting frontends and microservices on Kubernetes and AWS.
- Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment processes, integrated unit tests, and end-to-end integration tests.
- Experience with relational databases; PostgreSQL is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving, critical-thinking, communication, collaboration, prioritization, and independent execution skills.
- Preferred experience in healthcare technology, wearables, or connected-device data.
- Preferred familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript frameworks, React, React Native, and NextJS.
- Preferred experience building developer frameworks or tools and optimizing web performance.
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
- Equity compensation for full-time roles
Tech Stack
About Hims & Hers
Hims & Hers operates a direct-to-consumer telehealth and pharmacy platform for men’s and women’s health, offering online visits, prescriptions, and over‑the‑counter products for conditions like hair loss, sexual health, dermatology, and mental health. It monetizes through subscriptions and product sales, with nationwide shipping and affiliated providers and pharmacies. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company went public on the NYSE under the ticker HIMS in 2021.