Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We are redefining healthcare by putting the customer first and delivering access to care that is affordable, accessible, and personal, from diagnosis to treatment to delivery. No two people are the same, so we provide access to personalized care designed for results. By normalizing health & wellness challenges and innovating on their solutions, we’re making better health outcomes easier to achieve. 

Hims & Hers is a public company, traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “HIMS.” To learn more about the brand and offerings, you can visit hims.com/about and hims.com/how-it-works . For information on the company’s outstanding benefits, culture, and its talent-first flexible/remote work approach, see below and visit www.hims.com/careers-professionals.

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Engineer to join our Growth team. This full-stack role, with an emphasis on frontend development, will be crucial in driving the technical strategy and implementation of growth initiatives across our customer platform. You will lead complex engineering projects, mentor engineering talent, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions that enhance user acquisition, retention, and overall customer experience.

• Drive front-end excellence across Growth Engineering, ensuring the creation of fast, accessible, and visually polished experiences that reflect the Hims & Hers brand and delight users at every interaction.

• Champion UI performance, accessibility, and responsiveness, setting measurable standards (e.g., LCP, CLS, interactivity) and collaborating with teams to achieve top-tier metrics that directly improve conversion and engagement.

• Lead cross-team initiatives from inception through execution, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and ensuring delivery on key success metrics.

• Serve as the accountable technical leader for key systems or domains, taking ownership of both system outcomes and long-term evolution.

• Model principled decision-making, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system health and organizational scale.

• Champion cross-functional alignment, ensuring technical direction is tightly integrated with product strategy and roadmap priorities.

• Lead architectural design and evolution for systems that span multiple teams, aligning abstractions with long-term scalability and business goals.

• Raise the bar for code quality and engineering standards, ensuring that all solutions are robust, testable, observable, maintainable, secure, and scalable.

• Create and promote shared architectural patterns, tools, and infrastructure that improve engineering efficiency and velocity across teams.

• Participate in product discovery sessions to assess feasibility, explore user needs, define product features, and validate ideas with prototypes and experiments.

• Proactively identify systemic risks and lead the design and implementation of resilient, observable, and scalable solutions.

• Mentor and guide staff and senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

• Drive technical discussions and provide insights as a member of our technical advisory group to help guide and provide feedback on critical decisions and provide insights to shape the growth engineering strategy and roadmap.

• Drive a mindset of operational excellence through continuous improvement and learning.

• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to inform technical direction and product enhancements, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Stay on top of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve our engineering processes and product offerings.

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

• Proven track record of leading complex projects and driving successful cross-team initiatives.

• Deep architectural expertise in designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems in a modern software environment.

• Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Next, GraphQL) and libraries, as well as backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python).

• Expertise in operational excellence, including observability, incident response, reliability engineering, and risk mitigation.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically in a fast-paced environment.

• Skilled in aligning engineering efforts with product and business goals, and influencing roadmap priorities with long-term scalability in mind.

• Comfortable navigating high ambiguity and enabling teams to execute effectively in evolving or uncertain environments.

• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across a broad range of stakeholders.

• Proven track record of influencing and impacting without authority across teams and the company.

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

• Experience introducing new architecture and design concepts, including coaching, adoption, and execution within your domain and aligned with tech organization strategies

• 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)

• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution

• Offsite team retreats

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects diverse perspectives and prioritizes ethics, wellness, and a strong sense of belonging. If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply—even if you're not sure if your background or experience is a perfect match.

Hims considers all qualified applicants for employment, including applicants with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act, and any similar state or local fair chance laws.

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