Staff Backend Software Engineer

Oscar Health; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Oscar Health in New York, NY is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and development of enhancements to our next‑generation claims and payment processing systems. You will work on configuration, DSL extensibility, data pipelines, and system efficiency.

You will apply AI to solve hard problems, mentor engineers, own medium-to-large features, and work across teams with product managers and designers.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading technical contributions and mentoring teams.
• 5+ years applying CS concepts in practice within a team.
• 5+ years leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
• Experience delivering stable, maintainable code.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of enhancements to our claims and payment processing systems.
• Apply AI to solve hard problems, automating processes.
• Lead planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams.
• Mentor engineers and engineering teams to improve technology and practices.
• Define technical roadmap and influence product roadmap and process enhancements.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Cross-team delivery

System design

AI integration

Code quality

Job description

• As a Staff Software Engineer you’ll join our distributed team, leading the design and development of enhancements to our next-generation claims and payment processing systems. You will work on a broad problem space spanning contract and pricing configuration, system extensibility through our internally developed DSL, and data pipeline architecture and efficiency
• You’ll selective apply AI to solve hard problems, automating and improving processes that previously tedious and error-prone. Your focus will be on building scalable and reliable systems that ensure the accuracy and efficiency of our claims and payment processes
• You will report to the Director, Software Engineering
• Serve as the subject matter expert on business and technical domains
• Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams, including owning medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion
• Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems
• Lead and mentor engineers and engineering teams to improve technology, apply best practices and set overall team direction
• Responsible for ensuring the team’s delivery of large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team’s domain or spanning multiple domains
• Facilitate, encourage, and enhance a culture of collaboration within the engineering team and its internal customers; recognizing when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigate risk to deliver on time
• Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, and plays a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects
• Work with leadership to assign prioritization of technical roadmap and influence prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their area and across related areas
• Actively identifies and reduces failure domains while working with their team to do the same
• Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures
• Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they and their team are responsible for
• Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
• Other duties as assigned

7+ years of professional software engineering experience5+ years of experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create5+ years of experience with practical application of CS concepts within their team5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers5+ years of experience as a leader of cross-pod or cross-company deliverables5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code