Lead Software Engineer, Frontend (Content Platform)

​​About the Role:

Hims and Hers is seeking a highly motivated, talented, and experienced Lead Full Stack Engineer with a Front End focus to join our dynamic Content Platform team. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product, design, marketing, analytics, and data science, to deliver high-impact programs on time and within scope. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of our content platforms, ensuring a seamless user experience across hims.com and forhers.com, and driving the adoption of best practices in frontend development. This role is pivotal to scaling the content platform team in a self-service model for our stakeholders.

You Will:

• Lead the design, development, and deployment of the content management platform.
• Implement scalable and performant front-end solutions 
• Coach, mentor, and set best practices for architecture, coding, delivery, and operation within your pod
• Collaborate and build trust in other engineering pods and teams, develop reusable, scalable designs, write and collaborate in RFCs, and build architecture diagrams that benefit the entire organization 
• Partner with key stakeholders in product, design, infrastructure, marketing, and project management guiding decisions based on your knowledge of the codebase
• Contribute to the strategic vision for the platform pods as a technical leader, identifying new technologies that improve security, scalability, reliability, and performance. 
• Collaborate with backend and quality engineers to spec, write, test, and deploy code that powers hims.com and forhers.com. 
• Actively participate in sprint ceremonies to help drive continuous improvement in our process and culture

You Have:

• 10+ years experience in software engineering, preferably in a growth-focused engineering environment.
• A strong understanding of modern web technologies (React, GraphQL, Javascript, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3)
• Experience integrating headless CMS solutions at scale.
• Strong understanding of CSS, design principles, and component library creation. 
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail. 
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.
• Strong understanding of responsive design and cross-browser compatibility. 
• Ability to move quickly and set clear deadlines. 
• Strong prioritization skills with the ability to manage competing projects and align the delivery expectations with stakeholders.
• Familiarity with cloud hosting providers such as AWS

Nice To Have:

• Enjoy tech talks, katas, lunch and learns, and geeking over programming languages, architecture, category theory, or whatever engineering topic you are passionate about.
• Enjoy talking to product, design, and business stakeholders to better understand the problem space.
• Team leadership experience with training peer engineers
• Backend experience in Node/Nest.js and Kotlin
• Domain Driven Microservice Architectures (building Gateways and Bounded Contexts)
• History of implementing Micro Front-End
• Contentful CMS
• Worked on a system that had to deal with internationalization and localization.

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)
• Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products
• 401k benefits with employer matching contribution
• Offsite team retreats

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