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Hims & Hers, a leading health and wellness platform and NYSE-traded public company, is seeking a Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction across the organization.
In this role, you will operate at the organizational level, shaping the long-term technical landscape and enabling cross-functional execution at scale. Your responsibilities include:
- Defining and evolving the architectural vision for customer-facing systems in alignment with business strategy, leading cross-org initiatives that address long-term scale, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities
- Establishing patterns and frameworks that ensure quality, resilience, and operational excellence across the organization, serving as the authority on design decisions
- Collaborating with engineering and product leadership to shape product direction and drive org-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development norms
- Mentoring senior technical leaders and championing initiatives that foster talent density, engineering rigor, and continuous learning
- Leading through complexity and ambiguity, removing organizational blockers and accelerating delivery of strategic initiatives
- Translating customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions that embed customer obsession into the platform's architecture
- Designing systems and team boundaries to support sustainable growth, driving investment in non-functional priorities like observability, migrations, and reliability
The ideal candidate will create alignment in ambiguous technical spaces, balance short-term deliverables with long-term scalability, lead with curiosity and principled decision-making, and inspire confidence through transparency and deep technical credibility.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong record of group-level technical leadership
- Experience with Kotlin, Java, or Go, with deep understanding of system design for scale and performance
- Experience introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across multiple teams
- Proficiency with CI/CD workflows (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools (e.g., Datadog)
- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment across functions
- Experience translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, and high-impact technical solutions
- Track record of driving meaningful improvements in developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability
