# Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)

**Company**: Hims & Hers
**Location**: US - Remote
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $240K – $280K
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_9906e2aa-70f

## Description

We are seeking a visionary and technically exceptional Sr. Staff Engineer to lead architectural innovation and strategic technical direction. This individual will operate at the organizational level, shaping the long-term technical landscape, enabling cross-functional execution at scale, and aligning engineering efforts with product and business outcomes.

## Responsibilities:

- **Architectural Vision & Strategy**: Define and evolve the architectural vision for customer-facing systems in alignment with business strategy. Lead cross-org initiatives that address long-term scale, system boundaries, and foundational capabilities.

- **Technical Leadership & Governance**: Establish patterns and frameworks that ensure quality, resilience, and operational excellence across the organization. Serve as the authority on design decisions and foster alignment across teams.

- **Org-Wide Enablement & Collaboration**: Collaborate with engineering and product leadership to shape product direction and ensure our architecture supports strategic goals. Drive org-wide adoption of scalable practices, tools, and development norms.

- **Mentorship & Talent Growth**: Mentor senior technical leaders, elevating engineering capabilities across the organization. Champion initiatives that foster talent density, engineering rigor, and a culture of continuous learning.

- **Ambiguity Navigation & Execution Acceleration**: Lead through complexity and ambiguity, clarifying direction where ownership is unclear. Remove organizational blockers, simplify decision-making, and accelerate delivery of strategic initiatives.

- **Customer-Centric Engineering**: Translate customer needs and product goals into scalable technical solutions. Define principles and patterns that embed customer obsession into our platform’s architecture.

- **Sustainability & Scalability**: Design systems and team boundaries to support sustainable growth. Drive investment in non-functional priorities (e.g., observability, migrations, reliability) early in the design process.

## Requirements:

- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a strong record of group-level technical leadership.

- Experience with technologies such as Kotlin, Java or Go, with a deep understanding of system design for scale and performance.

- Experience introducing and scaling shared infrastructure, frameworks, or libraries across multiple teams.

- Proficiency with CI/CD workflows (e.g., CircleCI, GitHub), cloud infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes), and observability tools (e.g., Datadog).

- Demonstrated ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic technical alignment across functions.

- Experience translating customer and clinical needs into reliable, maintainable, and high-impact technical solutions.

- A track record of driving meaningful improvements in developer experience, team velocity, and system sustainability.

## Nice to Have:

- Create alignment and momentum in ambiguous or complex technical spaces.

- Balance short-term deliverables with long-term scalability, system health, and customer experience.

- Lead with curiosity, adaptability, and principled decision-making.

- Take initiative to address cross-squad blockers, scale constraints, or misaligned priorities before they escalate.

- Drive consistent, action-oriented execution even without perfect clarity.

- Mentor senior engineering talent and reinforce a culture of growth, feedback, and high technical standards.

- Inspire confidence through transparency, humility, and deep technical credibility.

- Advocate for customers through scalable, resilient design that anticipates clinical complexity and future scale.

## Benefits:

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Kotlin
- Java
- Go
- CI/CD workflows
- cloud infrastructure
- observability tools

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