Senior Staff Architect, Platform & Scale

Hims & Hers; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Comprehensive health benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)

401k with employer matching

Offsite team retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers seeks a visionary Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction. This role operates at the organizational level, shaping the long-term landscape, enabling cross-functional execution at scale, and aligning engineering with product and business outcomes.

You will drive architectural clarity, establish patterns for quality and reliability, and collaborate with leadership to scale practices and tooling across the company.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Kotlin, Java or Go, with a deep understanding of system design for scale and performance.
• Experience introducing and scaling shared infrastructure across multiple teams.
• Proficiency with CI/CD workflows (CircleCI, GitHub), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools (Datadog).
• Demonstrated ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment.
• Experience translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable solutions.
• Track record of improving developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability.

Responsibilities

• Architectural Vision & Strategy for customer-facing systems and long-term scale.
• Technical Leadership & Governance across the organization.
• Org-Wide Enablement & Collaboration with engineering and product leadership.
• Mentorship & Talent Growth of senior engineers.
• Navigate ambiguity, remove blockers, accelerate strategic initiatives.
• Customer-Centric Engineering translating needs into scalable tech solutions.
• Invest in sustainability and non-functional priorities early in design.

Skills

12+ years professional software eng

Kotlin/Java/Go

CI/CD workflows

Cloud infra (AWS/Docker/Kubernetes)

Observability (Datadog)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CircleCI

GitHub

Datadog

AWS

Java

Kotlin

Go

Job description

Hims & Hers seeks a visionary Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction. This role operates at the organizational level, shaping the long-term landscape, enabling cross-functional execution at scale, and aligning engineering with product and business outcomes.

You will drive architectural clarity, establish patterns for quality and reliability, and collaborate with leadership to scale practices and tooling across the company.