Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)

Hims & Hers is a health and wellness platform focused on making care more affordable, accessible, and personal. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of scalable backend systems, collaborate across engineering and product teams, and improve platform reliability, performance, and security.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable and performant backend solutions that meet product requirements and enhance the experience of the platform you support
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
• Advocate for your team's technical needs and priorities within the broader engineering organization
• Participate in product discovery sessions to assess feasibility, explore user needs, define product features, and validate ideas with prototypes and experiments
• Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration and communication across systems and services
• Contribute to the vision for the team and the platform as a technical leader, identifying new and strategic technologies and technical investments that improve security, scalability, reliability, and performance
• Break down complex projects into clear, actionable tasks to drive successful outcomes
• Implement observability practices across the platform, including logging, monitoring, and alerting, to ensure system reliability and performance
• Elevate the team's engineering standards by leading efforts to improve workflows, processes, and tools
• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify opportunities for improvement and drive optimization efforts
• Create and maintain technical documentation for architecture and development processes
• Conduct code reviews and contribute to knowledge sharing initiatives within the team
• Identify performance bottlenecks and propose enhancements to optimize system performance and reliability
• Stay updated with industry trends, technologies, and best practices, and propose innovative solutions to improve the platform
• Act as a key contributor to the hiring process by assisting with interviews and onboarding new engineers
• Model a culture of open communication and continuous improvement by providing constructive feedback and coaching to junior team members

Requirements:

• • 5+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code
• • 3+ years of experience with back end distributed system design, development, and delivery
• • 3+ years of experience with microservice architectures
• • Bachelor's or higher in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• • Proven experience in building scalable web applications and services, preferably in a cloud environment
• • Proficiency with the delivery and hosting of front ends and microservices on Kubernetes and AWS
• • Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically
• • Experience with agile software development and delivery methodology
• • Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, including integrated unit tests and end to end integration tests
• • Experience with Relational Databases, PostgreSQL preferred
• • Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within and across teams
• • Capable of prioritizing multiple projects in order to meet goals without management oversight
• • Healthcare tech, wearables, or connected device data experience
• • Familiarity with front end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, NextJS)
• • Experience building developer frameworks or tools (e.g., having contributed to a framework itself, not just built with one)
• • Web performance optimization experience