Software Engineer II, Patient Platform (Backend)

Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We are redefining healthcare by putting the customer first and delivering access to care that is affordable, accessible, and personal, from diagnosis to treatment to delivery. No two people are the same, so we provide access to personalized care designed for results. By normalizing health & wellness challenges and innovating on their solutions, we’re making better health outcomes easier to achieve. 

Hims & Hers is a public company, traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “HIMS.” To learn more about the brand and offerings, you can visit hims.com/about and hims.com/how-it-works . For information on the company’s outstanding benefits, culture, and its talent-first flexible/remote work approach, see below and visit www.hims.com/careers-professionals.

Hims & Hers is on a mission to empower people to live healthier lives. Our Patient team plays a critical role in achieving this by building services for the Patient Health Data Platform, enabling both patient and provider experiences.

As a Software Engineer II, you will design and implement moderately complex, scalable solutions across our back-end systems, working independently on well-scoped projects. You will contribute to design decisions within your squad, deepen your testing and operational practices, and help raise the quality bar through thoughtful code reviews and knowledge sharing.

• Design and build medium-complexity, scalable, and maintainable solutions that meet product requirements, keeping principles like SOLID and DRY in mind

• Write clear, well-structured technical design documents that align your squad and guide implementation, incorporating feedback as designs evolve

• Write modular, reusable, testable code, and ensure your squad's testing standards (unit, integration, end-to-end, and manual) are followed throughout development and delivery

• Provide constructive feedback in code reviews, with consistent attention to conventions, functionality, and test coverage

• Take ownership of technical debt by contributing fixes, proposing priorities, and balancing it against feature work

• Participate in product discovery to assess feasibility, explore user needs, and help validate ideas with prototypes and experiments

• Work with other engineers to ensure clean integration and communication across systems and services

• Implement basic observability (logging, monitoring, and alerting) for the systems you develop, and identify and resolve minor performance or reliability issues

• Break down medium-complexity projects into clear, actionable tasks and drive them from planning through delivery, seeking guidance when blocked

• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to identify and act on opportunities for improvement

• Create and maintain technical documentation for the systems and processes you work on

• Share knowledge with peers, suggest improvements to workflows and tools, and propose ideas for continuous improvement within your squad

• Contribute to the hiring process by assisting with technical screens or interviews where appropriate, and help coach new hires or interns on fundamental technical skills

• Minimum 2+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code

• Experience contributing to back-end distributed systems and services

• Familiarity with microservice architectures

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

• Experience building scalable web applications and services, preferably in the cloud

• Working experience deploying and hosting front ends and microservices on Kubernetes and AWS

• Experience with agile software development and delivery.

• Experience with CI/CD processes, including automated unit and integration tests

• Experience with relational databases, PostgreSQL preferred

• Strong problem-solving skills and a growing ability to think critically about trade-offs in performance, cost, and complexity

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively within a squad

• Ability to take ownership of your work, adapt to ambiguity, and make steady progress with minimal supervision

• Healthcare tech, wearables, or connected device data experience

• Proficiency in front-end technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript frameworks (React, React Native, NextJS, GraphQL)

• Experience with Node.js, Redis, or Kotlin

• Web performance optimization experience