# Sr. Staff Engineer (Backend)

Hiring organization: [Hims and Hers](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/hims-and-hers)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/acd4869b-fd8c-45a3-bc65-9b743c8b611c

Listed on Hims and Hers's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Employment type: full time
- Seniority: Staff
- Location: US Remote
- Remote: yes
- Salary: 240000 – 280000 USD per year

## Summary

This role leads the technical architecture and engineering strategy across Hims' customer-facing systems, working at an organizational level to shape infrastructure, establish patterns, and mentor senior engineers while translating product goals into scalable solutions. It suits experienced backend engineers who excel at driving alignment across teams, balancing long-term system health with short-term delivery, and building robust healthcare infrastructure.

_Our summary, not Hims and Hers's wording._

## Skills named

Amazon Web Services (AWS), CircleCI, Datadog, Docker, GitHub, Go, Java, Kotlin, Kubernetes

## Required

- 12+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Group-level technical leadership experience
- System design for scale and performance
- Experience scaling shared infrastructure or frameworks across multiple teams
- CI/CD workflow proficiency
- Cloud infrastructure and container orchestration experience
- Observability tools experience
- Ability to drive architectural clarity and strategic alignment
- Experience translating customer and clinical needs into reliable technical solutions

## Nice to have

- Proficiency with specific CI/CD platforms like CircleCI or GitHub
- Track record of improving developer experience and team velocity
- Experience with sustainability and reliability improvements

Apply on Hims and Hers's site: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hims-and-hers/d8ee258b-ae90-4eb5-a744-76cff1fb7101/application