Staff Software Engineer, Subscription and Membership Platform at Hims & Hers
$190,000–$230,000
Jul 9, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor engineering role focused on the infrastructure powering subscriptions and memberships — covering billing, lifecycle state management, plan changes, cancellations, and workflow orchestration across commerce, pharmacy, and fulfillment systems. The work involves architecting full-stack solutions, driving cross-functional technical initiatives, and mentoring engineers, with a back-end emphasis on Java/Kotlin and cloud-based services. Suits an experienced engineer comfortable leading platform-level decisions and influencing direction across multiple teams.
Staff level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 900 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 540–1,350
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The JD requires 8+ years of software engineering experience overall, plus at least 2 years in a Staff Engineer or equivalent senior technical leadership role — both are role-level gates, not tied to a specific technology.
AWS is listed in a parenthetical as 'preferably in a cloud environment (AWS)' but sits within the required 'You Have' section; treated as a hard gate with common cloud alternatives noted.
Temporal (workflow orchestration), Datadog (monitoring), and CI/CD are listed together in the required 'You Have' section with 'etc.' framing; all named tools are treated as hard gates. CircleCI and GitHub Actions are listed as interchangeable CI/CD examples and are captured as preferred alternatives to each other rather than separate hard gates.
Experimentation frameworks (Growthbook, Optimizely) appear in the required section but with an open-ended 'etc.' qualifier, suggesting familiarity with the category matters more than a specific tool; listed as preferred with alternatives.
Front-end technologies (React, React Native, Next.js, GraphQL, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) are introduced with 'Knowledge of' — softer language than the back-end stack — and are listed as preferred.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The role is explicitly full-stack but is primarily back-end/platform in scope (subscriptions, billing, lifecycle, workflow orchestration), supporting the Staff Software Developer classification.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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