Staff Software Engineer, Growth

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Staff Software Engineer to join our Growth Engineering team. This full-stack role, with an emphasis on frontend development, will be crucial in driving the technical strategy and implementation of growth initiatives across our customer platform.

Responsibilities

• Drive front-end excellence across Growth Engineering, ensuring the creation of fast, accessible, and visually polished experiences that reflect the Hims & Hers brand and delight users at every interaction.
• Champion UI performance, accessibility, and responsiveness, setting measurable standards (e.g., LCP, CLS, interactivity) and collaborating with teams to achieve top-tier metrics that directly improve conversion and engagement.
• Lead cross-team initiatives from inception through execution, coordinating stakeholders, managing risk, and ensuring delivery on key success metrics.
• Serve as the accountable technical leader for key systems or domains, taking ownership of both system outcomes and long-term evolution.
• Model principled decision-making, balancing short-term delivery with long-term system health and organizational scale.
• Champion cross-functional alignment, ensuring technical direction is tightly integrated with product strategy and roadmap priorities.
• Lead architectural design and evolution for systems that span multiple teams, aligning abstractions with long-term scalability and business goals.
• Create and promote shared architectural patterns, tools, and infrastructure that improve engineering efficiency and velocity across teams.
• Participate in product discovery sessions to assess feasibility, explore user needs, define product features, and validate ideas with prototypes and experiments.
• Proactively identify systemic risks and lead the design and implementation of resilient, observable, and scalable solutions.
• Mentor senior engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.
• Drive technical discussions and provide insights as a member of our technical advisory group to help guide and provide feedback on critical decisions and provide insights to shape the growth engineering strategy and roadmap.
• Drive a mindset of operational excellence through continuous improvement and learning.
• Analyze performance metrics and user feedback to inform technical direction and product enhancements, ensuring a seamless user experience.
• Stay on top of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices to continuously improve our engineering processes and product offerings.

Requirements

• 12+ years as a software engineer, shipping production code.
• Proven track record of leading complex projects and driving successful cross-team initiatives.
• Deep architectural expertise in designing scalable, resilient, and maintainable systems in a modern software environment.
• Proficiency in modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Next, GraphQL) and libraries, as well as backend technologies (e.g., Node.js, Python).

Qualifications

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically and strategically in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled in aligning engineering efforts with product and business goals, and influencing roadmap priorities with long-term scalability in mind.
• Comfortable navigating high ambiguity and enabling teams to execute effectively in evolving or uncertain environments.
• Exceptional communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence across a broad range of stakeholders.
• Proven track record of influencing and impacting without authority across teams and the company.
• Experience introducing new architecture and design concepts, including coaching, adoption, and execution within your domain and aligned with tech organization strategies.

Skills

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.