Software Engineer II, Back End, Pharmacy & Fulfillment

Hims & Hers is the leading health and wellness platform, on a mission to help the world feel great through the power of better health. We are redefining healthcare by putting the customer first and delivering access to care that is affordable, accessible, and personal, from diagnosis to treatment to delivery. No two people are the same, so we provide access to personalized care designed for results. By normalizing health & wellness challenges and innovating on their solutions, we’re making better health outcomes easier to achieve. 

Hims & Hers is a public company, traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol “HIMS.” To learn more about the brand and offerings, you can visit hims.com/about and hims.com/how-it-works . For information on the company’s outstanding benefits, culture, and its talent-first flexible/remote work approach, see below and visit www.hims.com/careers-professionals.

About the Role:

Hims & Hers is seeking an experienced Software Engineer 2 to help us build the platform used to reliably fulfill customer orders and prescriptions, at scale. As a member of the growing Fulfillment and Pharmacy Engineering Backend team, you will help define, build, test, deploy, and support the platform that delivers self-service capabilities to our partners in the Operations and Pharmacy teams.

You Will:

• Design and build backend services within our service-oriented architecture

• Collaborate with other backend platform engineers, UI engineers, technical product managers, and operations / pharmacy end users

• Drive feature delivery from technical design to production deployment

• Facilitate the breaking down and estimation of work.

• Implement observability, monitoring and alerting solutions

• Help refine solution definitions with product managers and colleagues

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, sharing your expertise and ensuring team growth.

• Facilitate and participate in technical design reviews

• Conduct thorough code reviews to ensure adherence to team standards and to foster a culture of continuous improvement within the engineering team.

• Contribute to operational excellence through on-call responsibilities which include issue resolution, root-cause analysis and code improvements to reduce toil

• Actively participate in retrospectives and help drive continuous improvement in our process and culture.

You Have:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

• 5+ years experience as a software engineer including languages such as Java and Kotlin

• 3+ years of experience with back end distributed system design, development and delivery, preferably in an eCommerce environment

• 3+ years of experience with microservice architectures

• Experience with design, development, delivery and management of microservices hosted on Kubernetes and AWS

• Experience with agile software development and delivery methodologies

• Experience with service instrumentation, observability, and monitoring concepts

• Proficiency with continuous integration/delivery including automated unit and integration test strategies

• Proficiency with Relational Databases, PostgreSQL preferred

• Strong understanding of GIT or similar version control systems

• Strong team player, with demonstrable cross team collaboration experience

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Datadog, Spring Boot, Postgresql, Kubernetes, Docker

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

We are committed to building a workforce that reflects diverse perspectives and prioritizes ethics, wellness, and a strong sense of belonging. If you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply—even if you're not sure if your background or experience is a perfect match.

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.

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