Senior Backend Software Engineer

Oscar Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Oscar Health in New York is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to build reliable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that simplify the health care experience for members and providers. You will work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems and lead planning, execution and release of technical projects.

You will own small to medium features or infra projects, and contribute across the codebase with guidance, while improving technology and applying best

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with Python and Golang.
• Experience with data tooling and observability.
• Ability to collaborate with partners, product managers, and designers.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces for members and providers.
• Lead planning, execution and release of complex technical projects.
• Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects from design to completion.
• Collaborate across the codebase with guidance from code owners and other engineers.
• Contribute to improving technology and applying best practices.

Skills

5+ years software engineering

Python

Golang

observability tooling

distributed systems

team collaboration

Tools

Grafana

BigQuery

Kubernetes

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

Experience with technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishmentsExperience 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 guidanceDemonstrates solid understanding of the practical application of CS concepts within their teamExperience working in data and engineering tooling, e.g. discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, authorization librariesExperience owning observability stack tooling, e.g. Grafana, BigQuery, KubernetesExperience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang