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.