Lead Software Engineer, Fullstack (Platform)

About the Role

Hims and Hers is seeking an experienced Lead Software Engineer to help build a fast, reliable, and frictionless eCommerce management user experience. You have a passion for front end user experience design and development along with full stack experience. You will be part of a team responsible for designing and developing web applications across the full stack. These applications will provide efficient, self-service, experiences enabling high velocity experimentation within the Product Management, Pricing and Customer Management domains.

Responsibilities

Spend a significant amount of time coaching other engineers and aiding the team in eliminating roadblocks.
Set best practices for architecture, coding, delivery, and operation of your team's services.
Partner with other engineering teams, product, design, infrastructure, and project management while serving as a mentor and advocate for your own team.
Work seamlessly to collaborate with backend and quality engineers to spec, write, test, and deploy code that powers self-service eCommerce management web applications.
Create engaging and responsive user interfaces using modern web technologies.
Brainstorm features with product managers and designers and guide decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase.
Monitor and improve the performance of applications, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Contribute to operational excellence through on-call responsibilities which include issue resolution, root-cause analysis and code improvements to reduce toil.
Coach and mentor team members, including constructive feedback for code and design reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to standards and team growth.
Maintain detailed documentation of code and processes, ensuring alignment with company and industry standards.
Actively participate in retrospectives and help drive continuous improvement in our architecture, agile process and team culture.
Cross functional team collaboration and communication including product and engineering leadership.

Qualifications

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
8+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code.
Proficiency in React, HTML5, Javascript, TypeScript, CSS3/SASS and GraphQL.
Strong understanding of CSS, design principles, and component library creation.
Strong understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility.
Proficiency with backend service design and development with languages such as Java and Kotlin.
Proficiency with full stack delivery and hosting of front ends and microservices on Kubernetes and AWS.
Experience with agile software development and delivery methodologies.
Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes including integrated unit tests and end-to-end integration tests.
Experience with Relational Databases, PostgreSQL preferred.
Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.