Senior Software Engineer, Backend

name; Tempe (AZ); Hybrid; USD 158,400 - 207,900; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Company equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

401(k) plan participation

Job summary

Oscar is looking for a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our Engineering team in Tempe, AZ. This role involves building reliable applications that enhance health care interactions while working closely with partners and design teams.

The position offers a hybrid work schedule and a competitive salary ranging from $158,400 to $207,900 annually, alongside comprehensive benefits such as unlimited vacation and company equity grants.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience with stable and maintainable code.
• Solid understanding of CS concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning and execution of technical projects.
• Collaborate with engineers and product managers.
• Own features or infrastructure projects from design to completion.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

Golang

Data engineering

Technical project management

Tools

Grafana

BigQuery

Kubernetes

Job description

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to join our Engineering team.

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 Tempe, AZ 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. #LI-Hybrid

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.

At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives.

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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