Senior Backend Software Engineer

Oscar Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oscar Health in Los Angeles is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build reliable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that streamline interactions with the health care system for members and providers.

You will collaborate with partners, product managers, and designers, own features or infrastructure projects, drive migrations, and contribute to observability and scalable software using Python and Go.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Solid understanding of CS concepts and practical application.
• Experience contributing to high-quality, scalable software systems.
• Observability tooling experience (Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes).
• Experience writing in Python and Go (Golang).

Responsibilities

• Build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces for easy interaction with the health care system.
• Lead planning, execution and release of complex technical projects.
• Collaborate with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
• Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects through design to completion.
• Contribute across the codebase with guidance from senior engineers and ensure quality.

Skills

Years of experience

CS concepts

Observability

Python

Go (Golang)

Data tooling

Kubernetes

Grafana

BigQuery

Tools

Grafana

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Job description

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for members and providers
• You will work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems
• Senior Engineers collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices
• 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 technical design through completion with little required guidance
• Independent contributor to their team. Work effectively across the codebase with appropriate guidance from code owners
• Make steady, well-paced progress without requiring frequent significant feedback from more senior engineers
• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

• Demonstrates solid understanding of the practical application of CS concepts within their team
• Experience with technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
• Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating, whether it be a new shiny technology or an arcane, ill-conceived data structure; our company may be new, but the health industry isn’t!
• Consistently writes stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight; writes modular, adaptable code with guidance
• Experience working in data and engineering tooling, e.g. discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, authorization libraries
• Experience owning observability stack tooling, e.g. Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes
• Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang