Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)
hims & hers · USA
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## About Hims & Hers Hims & Hers is a leading health and wellness platform on a mission to help the world feel great through better health. They’re redefining healthcare by putting the customer first and delivering access to care that is affordable, accessible, and personal—from diagnosis to treatment to delivery. ## About the Role Hims & Hers is seeking a **Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)** to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction at the organizational level. You’ll shape the long-term technical landscape, enable cross-functional execution at scale, and align engineering efforts with product and business outcomes. ## You Will ### Architectural Vision & Strategy - Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing systems aligned with business strategy - Lead cross-org initiatives addressing long-term scale, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities ### Technical Leadership & Governance - Establish patterns and frameworks for quality, resilience, and operational excellence - Serve as an authority on design decisions and foster alignment across teams ### Org-Wide Enablement & Collaboration - Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to shape product direction - Drive org-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development norms ### Mentorship & Talent Growth - Mentor senior technical leaders and elevate engineering capabilities - Champion initiatives that foster talent density, engineering rigor, and continuous learning ### Ambiguity Navigation & Execution Acceleration - Lead through complexity and ambiguity, clarifying direction where ownership is unclear - Remove organizational blockers, simplify decision-making, and accelerate strategic initiatives ### Customer-Centric Engineering - Translate customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions - Define principles and patterns that embed customer obsession into the platform architecture ### Sustainability & Scalability - Design systems and team boundaries to support sustainable growth - Drive investment in non-functional priorities early (e.g., observability, migrations, reliability) ## You Have - **12+ years** of professional software engineering experience with strong group-level technical leadership - Experience with **Kotlin, Java, or Go**, plus deep system design knowledge for scale and performance - Experience introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across multiple teams - Proficiency with **CI/CD** (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub), **AWS**, **Docker**, **Kubernetes**, and **observability** tools (e.g., Datadog) - Demonstrated ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment across functions - Track record translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, high-impact solutions - Proven improvements in developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability ## You’ll Thrive Here If You - Create alignment and momentum in ambiguous or complex technical spaces - Balance short-term deliverables with long-term scalability, system health, and customer experience - Lead with curiosity, adaptability, and principled decision-making - Take initiative to address cross-squad blockers, scale constraints, or misaligned priorities - Mentor senior engineering talent and reinforce a culture of growth, feedback, and high technical standards - Advocate for customers through scalable, resilient design that anticipates clinical complexity and fu
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