Principal Engineer (Fullstack/Backend) at Hims & Hers
$240,000–$280,000
Jul 14, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A principal-level engineering role focused on defining and steering architectural strategy across a health and wellness platform's customer-facing systems. The position operates above individual teams, setting technical direction, establishing shared patterns and frameworks, and aligning engineering work with broader product goals. It suits a deeply experienced backend engineer with a history of cross-organizational influence, system design at scale, and mentoring senior technical talent.
Principal level · 15+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,250–3,100
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
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 (6)
The JD lists Kotlin, Java, and Go as a group ('such as Kotlin, Java, or Go') — these are interchangeable backend language options; Kotlin is captured as the primary with Java and Go as alternatives.
CircleCI and GitHub are listed together as CI/CD workflow examples; GitHub Actions is captured as the alternative to CircleCI. GitHub as a source-control platform is subsumed by the CI/CD requirement.
Datadog is cited as an example observability tool ('e.g., Datadog') but sits in the hard-requirements block, so it is treated as a required capability with Datadog as the named tool.
No compensation figures are disclosed in the posting.
The role carries genuine org-wide, cross-functional architectural authority and an explicit 'Principal Engineer' title with 15+ years required — Principal seniority is well-supported by both the advertised title and the described scope.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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