Director, Engineering - Commerce

hims-and-hers; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health benefits

ESPP

401k with employer matching

Offsite team retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a Director of Engineering for Commerce to own end-to-end systems spanning catalog, pricing, promotions, payments, and checkout. You‘ll lead multiple teams, set technical vision, and partner with product, design, data, finance, Pharmacy, Care, and operations to deliver a fast, reliable commerce experience.

You will build scalable, secure systems, drive AI-first engineering, and align initiatives with business goals, ensuring uptime and trust across millions of members.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading multiple teams or organizations in high-growth environments.
• Proven success leading cross-functional product engineering teams and owning end-to-end consumer experiences.
• Experience in health tech, e-commerce, or subscription-based platforms preferred.
• Strong technical background with modern web and service architectures (Node.js, GraphQL, React, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes).
• Expertise in building scalable, secure, and compliant systems handling clinical or health-related data.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering innovation and accountability.
• Serve as the single engineering DRI for Commerce across catalog, pricing, promotions, payments, and checkout.
• Drive the next-generation commerce platform and evolve the catalog domain model.
• Define and deliver the engineering roadmap with product and design.
• Champion API-based integration over cross-domain direct DB access.
• Lead the team’s transition to an AI-first engineering culture and spec-driven development.
• Scale architecture with long-term growth in mind, ensuring reliability and performance.
• Oversee platform architecture for scalability, security, and compliance, especially for payments.
• Drive alignment with data and analytics to improve pricing, promotions, and checkout.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Node.js

GraphQL

React

TypeScript

AWS

Kubernetes

Security/Compliance

Payments/Commerce

Executive communication

Health tech

Job description

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.

About the Role:

Hims & Hers is on a mission to empower people to live healthier lives. Commerce is the engine that turns that mission into a seamless buying and subscription experience — the systems that power how customers discover products, see the right price, redeem promotions, pay, and check out across our platform. As we scale to serve millions of members, the reliability, flexibility, and intelligence of these systems directly shape revenue, conversion, and customer trust.

As Director of Engineering for Commerce, you will be the single engineering DRI for the end-to-end commerce platform spanning catalog, pricing, promotions, payments, and checkout. You'll lead the teams and managers building the foundational systems that every customer transaction depends on, owning the technical vision, architecture, and delivery for a complex, high-throughput domain where correctness and uptime are non-negotiable. You'll partner closely with product, design, data, finance, Pharmacy, Care, and operations leaders to deliver a fast, trustworthy, conversion-optimized commerce experience, and you'll set the multi-year technical and organizational strategy that lets this platform scale.

You Will:

• Lead, coach, and inspire a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement.

• Serve as the single engineering DRI for Commerce owning technical vision, strategy, and execution across catalog, pricing, promotions, payments, and checkout.

• Drive the vision and execution of the next-generation commerce platform leading the shift to a rich, durable catalog domain model

• Define and deliver the engineering roadmap in partnership with product and design — balancing innovation, reliability, scalability, and quality across the commerce domain.

• Champion clear domain boundaries and enforced contracts — moving the organization off direct cross-domain database access and toward integration through APIs and published events.

• Lead the team's transition to an AI-first engineering culture and spec-driven development

• Scale architecture and systems with long-term growth and performance in mind, championing evolutionary architecture so the platform stays adaptable as the business and product surface area expand.

• Oversee platform architecture for scalability, reliability, security, and compliance — with particular rigor for payments and financially sensitive transactions.

• Drive alignment across squads and cross-functional partners to deliver key initiatives while managing competing priorities and trade-offs between speed, technical debt, and innovation.

• Partner with data and analytics teams to make commerce smarter — improving pricing, promotion, and checkout experiences that increase conversion and retention.

• Mentor and develop engineering leaders, with a focus on succession planning, leadership growth, and building a strong technical bench.

• Own staffing and organizational strategy — hiring, headcount planning, and structuring teams to match the evolving needs of the Commerce domain.

• Represent engineering in cross-functional and executive-level forums, translating strategy, status, and trade-offs for senior stakeholders and influencing key business decisions.

You Have:

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, with 5+ years leading multiple teams or organizations in high-growth environments.

• Proven success leading cross-functional product engineering teams and owning end-to-end consumer experiences.

• Experience in health tech, e-commerce, or subscription-based platforms preferred.

• Strong technical background with understanding of modern web and service architectures (Node.js, GraphQL, React, TypeScript, AWS, Kubernetes).

• Expertise in building scalable, secure, and compliant systems handling clinical or health-related data.

• Experience integrating third-party data sources, APIs, and device platforms (labs, wearables, fulfillment).

• Ability to define and execute technical roadmaps aligned with product vision and business outcomes.

• Strong communication skills and executive presence — able to translate between technical and business stakeholders.

• Demonstrated ability to recruit, develop, and retain high-performing engineering talent.

• Strategic thinker with a bias for action and passion for building user-centric, data-driven health experiences.

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)

• 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.

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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