Senior Frontend Architect & Tech Strategy Lead

hims & hers; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health benefits (medical

Dental & vision, parental leave

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

401k with employer matching

Offsite team retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a visionary Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction across frontend systems.

This role shapes long-term technical landscape, enabling cross-functional execution at scale and aligning engineering with product and business outcomes. The position emphasizes architectural vision, frontend excellence, governance, and organization-wide enablement, with mentorship and customer-centric engineering at the core.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong record of group-level technical leadership.
• Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks and libraries (React, Next.js, GraphQL) with production-grade experience delivering high-performance web experiences at scale.
• Full-stack capability with backend proficiency in Node.js and Python, enabling end-to-end ownership of features and systems.
• Deep expertise in UI performance, web accessibility, and responsive design.
• Experience introducing and scaling shared frontend infrastructure, component libraries, or design systems across multiple teams.
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment across functions.
• Experience translating customer and product 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 leadership skills, with the ability to influence across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Comfortable navigating high ambiguity and enabling teams to execute effectively in evolving or uncertain environments.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Strategy: Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing frontend systems and lead cross-org initiatives addressing long-term scale and design systems.
• Frontend Excellence & Performance: Drive fast, accessible, and visually polished experiences; champion UI performance and accessibility.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Establish patterns and frameworks for quality, resilience, observability, and secure scalable solutions.
• Org-Wide Enablement & Collaboration: Shape product direction and promote shared architectural patterns and tooling to improve velocity.
• Mentorship & Talent Growth: Mentor senior engineers, foster growth and run discovery sessions to validate ideas with prototypes.
• Ambiguity Navigation & Execution Acceleration: Lead through complexity, remove blockers, and accelerate strategic initiatives.
• Customer-Centric Engineering: Translate customer needs into scalable technical solutions and embed customer obsession in architecture.
• Sustainability & Scalability: Design systems and boundaries for sustainable growth and early non-functional priorities.

Skills

React

Next.js

GraphQL

Node.js

Python

UI performance

Accessibility

Design systems

Frontend architecture

Leadership

Job description

Hims & Hers is seeking a visionary Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction across frontend systems.

This role shapes long-term technical landscape, enabling cross-functional execution at scale and aligning engineering with product and business outcomes. The position emphasizes architectural vision, frontend excellence, governance, and organization-wide enablement, with mentorship and customer-centric engineering at the core.