Staff Software Engineer, Subscriptions & Growth Platform

hims & hers; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary + equity

Unlimited PTO

Health benefits

ESPP

401k with match

Offsite retreats

Job summary

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Subscriptions and Membership Platform team. You will design scalable backend systems, own subscription workflows, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive growth metrics through secure, high-performance software.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform decisions, and contribute to product discovery while maintaining documentation and coding standards across the org. Remote-friendly with strong collaboration culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role
• Proven experience in building platform infrastructure that drives retention, engagement, and satisfaction (preferably in AWS)
• Proficiency in back-end technologies (Spring, Java, Kotlin, PostgreSQL)
• Demonstrated ability to optimize web service metrics (speed, reliability)
• Experience with workflows (Temporal), monitoring (Datadog), experimentation frameworks (Growthbook, Optimizely), CI/CD (CircleCI, GitHub actions)
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams
• Capable of prioritizing multiple projects without management oversight
• Knowledge of front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, NextJS, GraphQL, TypeScript)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and architecture of scalable and performant backend solutions that meet product requirements and enhance the platform
• Own the architecture of core subscription and membership systems including billing, lifecycle state, plan changes, and workflow orchestration
• Partner with engineering teams across commerce, clinical care, pharmacy, and fulfillment to drive cross-functional technical initiatives
• Provide mentorship on best practices, design patterns, and coding standards
• Advocate for team technical needs within the broader engineering organization
• Participate in product discovery and validation through prototypes and experiments
• Collaborate with product and design to ensure platform capabilities support end-to-end customer experience
• Drive strategic technical decisions to improve security, scalability, and performance
• Break down complex projects into actionable tasks
• Establish and enforce consistent coding and testing standards
• Initiate efforts to reduce technical debt and improve workflow efficiency
• Implement tools and processes for monitoring, incident response, and performance optimization
• Implement analytics to demonstrate engineering impact on activation/reactivation KPIs
• Analyze metrics and user feedback to continuously improve the platform
• Maintain thorough technical documentation
• Conduct code reviews and knowledge-sharing initiatives

Skills

Java

Kotlin

PostgreSQL

Spring

Temporal

Datadog

Growthbook

Optimizely

CI/CD

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

NextJS

React Native

HTML/CSS/JS

Tools

AWS

Job description

Hims & Hers is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join the Subscriptions and Membership Platform team. You will design scalable backend systems, own subscription workflows, and partner with cross-functional teams to drive growth metrics through secure, high-performance software.

You will mentor engineers, shape platform decisions, and contribute to product discovery while maintaining documentation and coding standards across the org. Remote-friendly with strong collaboration culture.