
Hospitals and Health Care · 2.9k people
Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Posted 16 Oct
What’s this role about? The Staff Software Engineer will lead the design and development of complex claims and payment processing systems while mentoring engineering teams. They are responsible for driving technical roadmaps, ensuring system reliability, and facilitating cross-team collaboration to deliver high-quality software solutions.
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Company
About Oscar Health Oscar Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSCR) is a leading consumer health company that gives people power over their healthcare. Oscar Health serves millions of consumers, employers, brokers, and partners through Oscar Insurance, Lucie Health Marketplace, and Trove Group. Together these businesses deliver exceptional lifestyle products and technology platforms that make healthcare easy to choose, use, and experience.
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We’re on a mission to give people power over their healthcare.

Responsibilities
- Oscar is a blended work culture where everyone, regardless of work type or location, feels connected to their teammates, our culture and our mission.
- This is a hybrid position, you will need to live within commutable distance to our New York City office (in Hudson Square), our Tempe office (off the 101 at University Dr), or our Los Angeles office (in Marina Del Rey), and will be expected to come into the office at least two days each week.
- The base pay for this role is: $192,000 - $252,000 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar’s unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.
- Serve as the subject matter expert on business and technical domains.
- Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams, including owning medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion
- Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
- Lead and mentor engineers and engineering teams to improve technology, apply best practices and set overall team direction.
- Responsible for ensuring the team’s delivery of large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains.
- Facilitate, encourage, and enhance a culture of collaboration within the engineering team and its internal customers; recognizing when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigate risk to deliver on time.
- Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, and plays a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects.
- Work with leadership to assign prioritization of technical roadmap and influence prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their area and across related areas.
- Actively identifies and reduces failure domains while working with their team to do the same.
- Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
- Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they and their team are responsible for.
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Other duties as assigned
Qualification
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience as a leader of cross-pod or cross-company deliverables
- 5+ years of experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create
- 5+ years of experience with practical application of CS concepts within their team.
- 5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code
- 5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers.
- This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity.
- Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements.
- Artificial Intelligence (AI): Our AI Guidelines outline the acceptable use of artificial intelligence for candidates and detail how we use AI to support our recruiting efforts.
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick time
- Paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Paid wellness time
- Wellness reimbursements
- Unlimited vacation program
- Company equity grants
- Annual performance bonuses
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