Sr. Software Engineer, Developer Platform (Full-Stack)

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 Senior Engineer in their Customer Platform group, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions across both front-end and back-end systems, collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experience and drive significant growth.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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 backend distributed system design, development, and delivery
• 3+ years of experience with microservice architectures
• Strong full-stack proficiency in TypeScript, with a React (or similar) frontend and Node.js (or similar) backend
• Proven experience building scalable systems that other engineering teams depend on and build with
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to balance curiosity and decisive action
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, this role requires deeply understanding of user (developer) needs, not just executing tickets
• Experience with agile development, CI/CD, and testing practices
• Capable of prioritizing across ambiguous, cross-team priorities without management oversight
• Experience with NextJS and NestJS specifically
• Experience building developer frameworks or tools (e.g., having contributed to a framework itself, not just built with one)
• Web performance optimization experience
• Familiarity with Kubernetes/AWS and DevOps practices (helpful, not a focus area)