Staff Software Engineer, Growth

Hims & Hers is a leading health and wellness platform that seeks a Staff Software Engineer to join its Growth Engineering team. The role involves driving front-end excellence, leading complex engineering projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact solutions that enhance user acquisition, retention, and overall customer experience.

Requirements

• Drive front-end excellence across Growth Engineering, ensuring the creation of fast, accessible, and visually polished experiences that reflect the Hims & Hers brand and delight users at every interaction.
• Champion UI performance, accessibility, and responsiveness, setting measurable standards (e.g., LCP, CLS, interactivity) and collaborating with teams to achieve top-tier metrics that directly improve conversion and engagement.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from inception through execution, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and ensuring delivery on key success metrics.
• Serve as the accountable technical leader for key systems or domains, taking ownership of both system outcomes and long-term evolution.
• Model principled decision-making, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system health and organizational scale.
• Champion cross-functional alignment, ensuring technical direction is tightly integrated with product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Lead architectural design and evolution for systems that span multiple teams, aligning abstractions with long-term scalability and business goals.
• Raise the bar for code quality and engineering standards, ensuring that all solutions are robust, testable, observable, maintainable, secure, and scalable.
• Create and promote shared architectural patterns, tools, and infrastructure that improve engineering efficiency and velocity across teams.
• Participate in product discovery sessions to assess feasibility, explore user needs, define product features, and validate ideas with prototypes and experiments.
• Proactively identify systemic risks and lead the design and implementation of resilient, observable, and scalable solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Drive technical discussions and provide insights as a member of our technical advisory group to help guide and provide feedback on critical decisions and provide insights to shape the growth engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Drive a mindset of operational excellence through continuous improvement and learning.
• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to inform technical direction and product enhancements, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Stay on top of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve our engineering processes and product offerings.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity compensation
• Unlimited PTO
• Company holidays
• Quarterly mental health days
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Parental leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• Offsite team retreats

Originally posted on Himalayas