hims-and-hers - Software Engineer II, Patient Platform (Backend)
Requirements
• 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 • OUR BENEFITS (THERE ARE MORE BUT HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS): • 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 • Hims considers all qualified applicants for employment, including applicants with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the California Fair Chance Act, and any similar state or local fair chance laws. • It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability. • Hims & Hers is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected] and describe the needed accommodation. Your privacy is important to us, and any information you share will only be used for the legitimate purpose of considering your request for accommodation. Hims & Hers gives consideration to all qualified applicants without regard to any protected status, including disability. Please do not send resumes to this email address. • To learn more about how we collect, use, retain, and disclose Personal Information, please visit our Global Candidate Privacy Statement https://www.hims.com/global-candidate-privacy-statement.
Responsibilities
• 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
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