Sr. Software Engineer, Patient Platform (Backend)
Hims & HersBase 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 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.