About the job:
Hims & Hers is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to build and maintain the platform that reliably fulfills customer orders and prescriptions at scale. As a key member of the Fulfillment and Pharmacy Engineering Backend team, you will define, build, test, deploy, and support our self-service platform for Fulfillment Operations and Pharmacy teams.
Responsibilities:
- Drive best practices for architecture, coding, quality, and delivery of team services.
- Lead, mentor, and develop engineers within your team, while removing roadblocks to their progress.
- Build backend services to support pharmacy and fulfillment functions.
- Collaborate with product managers, technical program managers, other engineering teams, and site reliability engineering to ensure team throughput and system operational readiness.
- Maintain and update the Engineering roadmap in collaboration with Engineering Leaders and Product Managers.
- Brainstorm features with product managers and other engineering leaders, leveraging your knowledge of the codebase.
- Collaborate with other teams as you develop reusable, scalable designs benefiting the entire organization.
- Contribute to the team and platform vision as a technical leader, identifying new and strategic solutions to improve security, scalability, reliability, and performance.
Experience & Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
- 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping production code; management experience is a plus.
- 5+ years of experience in backend distributed system design, development, and delivery, preferably in an eCommerce fulfillment or supply chain environment.
- 5+ years of experience with microservice architectures.
- Proficiency in writing distributed services using Java, Kotlin, and PostgreSQL.
- Ability to move quickly and meet tight deadlines.
- Experience with the design, development, delivery, and management of microservices hosted on Kubernetes and AWS.
Our Benefits (there are more but here are some highlights):
- 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)
- Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products
- 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
- Offsite team retreats
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