Senior Software Engineer, Backend

Oscar Health; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 158,400 - 207,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation program

Company equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

A healthcare technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend, to enhance their technology platform based in Los Angeles. This role involves building reliable applications, leading technical projects, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Candidates should have over 5 years of software engineering experience, strong problem-solving abilities, and knowledge of Python and Golang. The position offers a hybrid work schedule and competitive pay range of $158,400–$207,900 annually with benefits.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, with impactful accomplishments.
• Experience in proposing, experimenting, and iterating with technologies and data structures.
• Solid understanding of CS concepts and their practical application.

Responsibilities

• Build reliable and maintainable applications and interfaces.
• Lead planning and execution of complex technical projects.
• Collaborate with partners and other engineers to improve technology.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Technical contributions

Fault-tolerant software systems

Understanding of CS concepts

Tools

Python

Golang

Grafana

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Job description

Hi, we’re Oscar. We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our Engineering team. Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the Role

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.

Work Location

This position is based in our Los Angeles office, requiring a hybrid work schedule with 3 days of in‑office work per week. Thursdays are a required in‑office day for team meetings and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule.

Pay Transparency

The base pay for this role is: $158,400 – $207,900 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar’s unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.

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 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.

Qualifications

• 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!
• Experience with technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault‑tolerant, and scalable software systems.
• Demonstrates solid understanding of the practical application of CS concepts within their team.
• Consistently writes stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight; writes modular, adaptable code with guidance.

Bonus Points

• Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang.
• Experience owning observability stack tooling, e.g. Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes.
• Experience working in data and engineering tooling, e.g. discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, authorization libraries.

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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.

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