Lead AI & Recommendations Platform Engineer

Jobicy; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Unlimited PTO

Health benefits (medical, dental, vis

ESPP

401k

Offsite retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the AI & Recommendations platform to lead scalable backend systems powering treatment recommendations and personalized care. You will shape APIs, platform services, and data pipelines to deliver intelligent healthcare experiences.

Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize models, build observable distributed services, and advance the stack from APIs to LLM-powered applications across healthcare verticals.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems at scale.
• Strong expertise in backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience integrating ML models, recommendation engines, or LLM-powered applications into production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms and modern infrastructure tooling (AWS, Kubernetes, Databricks, MLflow, Airflow).

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable backend systems, APIs, and platform services that power treatment recommendations and personalization.
• Architect and build the infrastructure that enables experimentation, recommendation engines, and AI-powered healthcare experiences.
• Partner with ML engineers to productionize models and integrate intelligent decisioning into customer and provider workflows.
• Design and implement highly reliable, observable, and maintainable distributed systems.
• Drive platform investments including self-service tooling, testing infrastructure, unified decisioning frameworks, and data pipelines.

Skills

Backend engineering

Distributed systems

APIs

Cloud-native

Python

ML integration

LLM / AI tech

Education

Advanced degree in CS/ML

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Databricks

MLflow

Airflow

Job description

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Software Engineer on the AI & Recommendations platform to lead scalable backend systems powering treatment recommendations and personalized care. You will shape APIs, platform services, and data pipelines to deliver intelligent healthcare experiences.

Collaborate with ML engineers to productionize models, build observable distributed services, and advance the stack from APIs to LLM-powered applications across healthcare verticals.