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Hims & Hers is a public healthcare platform (NYSE: HIMS) on a mission to make healthcare more accessible, affordable, and personalized. The Patient team builds services for the Patient Health Data Platform, enabling both patient and provider experiences.
As a Senior Software Engineer on the backend, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing and implementing scalable, high-performance solutions across back-end systems. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and influence the platform's technical direction.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead design and architecture of scalable, performant backend solutions using microservices and distributed systems
- 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 and validate ideas with prototypes
- Work closely with other engineering teams to ensure seamless integration across systems
- Contribute to the platform vision by identifying strategic technologies and technical investments that improve security, scalability, reliability, and performance
- Implement observability practices including logging, monitoring, and alerting
- Elevate engineering standards by leading efforts to improve workflows, processes, and tools
- Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify optimization opportunities
- Create and maintain technical documentation for architecture and development processes
- Conduct code reviews and contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives
- Assist with hiring and onboarding of new engineers
- Model a culture of open communication and continuous improvement
Required qualifications:
- 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
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience
- Proven experience building scalable web applications and services in cloud environments
- Proficiency with Kubernetes and AWS for delivery and hosting
- Experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL preferred
- Strong problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
- Experience with agile development, CI/CD processes, and automated testing
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
Preferred qualifications include healthcare tech experience, familiarity with front-end technologies (React, React Native, NextJS), experience building developer frameworks or tools, and web performance optimization expertise.
