Principal Engineer – Fullstack, Backend

🕒 July 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $240k - $280k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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hims & hers

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Healthcare • Consulting • Marketing

Hims & Hers is an online platform with over 1 million subscribers that connects patients to licensed healthcare professionals across all 50 states in the U. S. The service offers comprehensive support for sexual health, weight loss, hair regrowth, mental health, and skincare through a 100% online process. Clients can receive personalized treatment plans which may include prescription medications, and benefit from free and discreet shipping. Hims & Hers prides itself on providing accessible and affordable healthcare without the need for insurance, offering transparent pricing and support from licensed providers. It aims to empower individuals by making healthcare and treatment conveniently available on their own terms, including mental health support, which includes treatments for anxiety and depression.

📋 Description

• Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing systems in alignment with business strategy. Lead cross-org initiatives that address long-term scale, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities • Establish patterns and frameworks that ensure quality, resilience, and operational excellence across the organization. Serve as the authority on design decisions and foster alignment across teams • Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to shape product direction and ensure our architecture supports strategic goals. Drive org-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development norms • Mentor senior technical leaders, elevating engineering capabilities across the organization. Champion initiatives that foster talent density, engineering rigor, and a culture of continuous learning • Lead through complexity and ambiguity, clarifying direction where ownership is unclear. Remove organizational blockers, simplify decision-making, and accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives • Translate customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions. Define principles and patterns that embed customer obsession into our platform’s architecture • Design systems and team boundaries to support sustainable growth. Drive investment in non-functional priorities (e.g., observability, migrations, reliability) early in the design process

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep architectural expertise and a record of delivering production backend systems at scale. • Proven track record of influencing technical strategy and delivering cross-org technical initiatives at the group or organizational level. • Experience with backend technologies such as Kotlin, Java, or Go, with a deep understanding of system design for scale and performance. • Full-stack capability with frontend proficiency in modern frameworks and libraries (React, Next, GraphQL) • 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. • A track record of driving meaningful improvements in developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability. • Exceptional communication and collaboration skills with a demonstrated ability to influence across functions. • Experience coaching and growing senior engineering talent, and shaping hiring and development practices.

🏖️ Benefits

• 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