​​About the Role:

Hims & Hers is on a mission to empower people to live healthier lives. Our Growth Engineering team plays a critical role in achieving this by building cutting-edge web experiences that drive patient acquisition, engagement, and satisfaction.

As a Staff Engineer on our Categories team, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions across both front-end and back-end systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and influence the direction of our platform. Your role will also involve engaging in product discovery to identify user needs and ensure that our solutions align with business objectives.

You Will:

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable and performant full-stack solutions that meet product requirements and enhance user experience

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineers on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards

• Advocate 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

• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive and engaging user interfaces that address user pain points and enhance the overall experience

• 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 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

• 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

• Serve on our technical advisory group to help guide and provide feedback on critical technical decisions

• 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

You Have:

• 12+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code

• Proven experience in building scalable web applications and services, preferably in a cloud environment

• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, Next, GraphQL) and back-end technologies (Node.js, Redis)

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across teams

• Capable of prioritizing multiple projects in order to meet goals without management oversight

Our Benefits (there are more but here are some highlights):

• Competitive salary & equity compensation for full-time roles

• Unlimited PTO, company holidays, and quarterly mental health days

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental & vision, and parental leave

• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

• Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products

• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution

• Offsite team retreats

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