Senior Backend Engineer, Health Tech (Hybrid LA)

Oscar Health, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 208,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

Oscar Health, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our Engineering team in Los Angeles. This role focuses on building reliable backend systems and interfaces, partnering with product managers and designers to deliver scalable health tech solutions.

The position is hybrid—based in Los Angeles with 3 in-office days per week (Thursdays required). Compensation includes base pay, equity grants, unlimited vacation, and annual bonuses.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating on new technologies or data structures.
• Strong ability to build fault-tolerant, scalable software systems.

Responsibilities

• Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains.
• Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects.
• Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
• Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.
• Implement step-wise technical migrations of our existing services and applications.
• Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects from design to completion with minimal guidance.
• Independent contributor who works effectively across the codebase.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend development

Collaborative

Problem solving

CS fundamentals

Tools

Python

Golang

Job description

Oscar Health, Inc. is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our Engineering team in Los Angeles. This role focuses on building reliable backend systems and interfaces, partnering with product managers and designers to deliver scalable health tech solutions.

The position is hybrid—based in Los Angeles with 3 in-office days per week (Thursdays required). Compensation includes base pay, equity grants, unlimited vacation, and annual bonuses.