Software Engineer II, Patient Platform (Backend)

Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. As a Software Engineer II on the Patient team, you will design and implement scalable solutions for the Patient Health Data Platform, focusing on enhancing both patient and provider experiences.

Responsibilities:

• Design and build medium-complexity, scalable, and maintainable solutions that meet product requirements, keeping principles like SOLID and DRY in mind
• Write clear, well-structured technical design documents that align your squad and guide implementation, incorporating feedback as designs evolve
• Write modular, reusable, testable code, and ensure your squad's testing standards (unit, integration, end-to-end, and manual) are followed throughout development and delivery
• Provide constructive feedback in code reviews, with consistent attention to conventions, functionality, and test coverage
• Take ownership of technical debt by contributing fixes, proposing priorities, and balancing it against feature work
• Participate in product discovery to assess feasibility, explore user needs, and help validate ideas with prototypes and experiments
• Work with other engineers to ensure clean integration and communication across systems and services
• Implement basic observability (logging, monitoring, and alerting) for the systems you develop, and identify and resolve minor performance or reliability issues
• Break down medium-complexity projects into clear, actionable tasks and drive them from planning through delivery, seeking guidance when blocked
• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify and act on opportunities for improvement
• Create and maintain technical documentation for the systems and processes you work on
• Share knowledge with peers, suggest improvements to workflows and tools, and propose ideas for continuous improvement within your squad
• Contribute to the hiring process by assisting with technical screens or interviews where appropriate, and help coach new hires or interns on fundamental technical skills

Requirements:

• Minimum 2+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code
• Experience contributing to back-end distributed systems and services
• Familiarity with microservice architectures
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
• Experience building scalable web applications and services, preferably in the cloud
• Working experience deploying and hosting front ends and microservices on Kubernetes and AWS
• Experience with agile software development and delivery
• Experience with CI/CD processes, including automated unit and integration tests
• Experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL preferred
• Strong problem-solving skills and a growing ability to think critically about trade-offs in performance, cost, and complexity
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a squad
• Ability to take ownership of your work, adapt to ambiguity, and make steady progress with minimal supervision
• Healthcare tech, wearables, or connected device data experience
• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, NextJS, GraphQL)
• Experience with Node.js, Redis, or Kotlin
• Web performance optimization experience