Sr. Software Engineer, Backend - San Francisco, United States - hims & hers

Description

About the job:

Hims & Hers is seeking an experienced Sr. Software Engineer 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.

Responsibilities:

Design and build backend services within our service-oriented architecture that power our Pharmacy and Fulfillment platform

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

Provide leadership and guidance to internal team members on the implementation of architecture and designs

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.

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

Experience & Skills

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 Domain Driven Design

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)

Employee discounts on hims & hers & Apostrophe online products

401k benefits with employer matching contribution

Offsite team retreats

#LI-Remote

hims & hers focuses on E-Commerce, Health and Wellness, and Telemedicine. Their company has offices in San Francisco. They have a mid-size team that's between employees. To date, hims & hers has raised $197M of funding; their latest round was closed on January 2019 at a valuation of $1.1B.

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