Staff Fullstack Software Engineer

Oscar Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Oscar Health is seeking Staff Software Engineers, Fullstack with a frontend lean, to join multiple engineering teams in Los Angeles. The role focuses on leading technical efforts to build reliable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that simplify healthcare interactions for members and providers.

You will report to an Associate Director+ and guide cross-team delivery, set technical direction, and mentor engineers while ensuring compliance with applicable laws and high-quality software

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience leading technical contributions within teams
• Strong practical CS knowledge applied to real systems
• Experience leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables
• Experience mentoring junior engineers and leading teams

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution and release of complex projects across multiple teams
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to solve challenging problems
• Mentor engineers and set team direction and best practices
• Define and enforce SLOs for key systems and ensure reliable delivery
• Influence prioritization of technical and product roadmaps across domains

Skills

Staff software engineering

Technical leadership

Cross-team leadership

Mentoring engineers

Job description

• We are hiring for Staff Software Engineers, Fullstack (with a frontend lean) to join several teams across the Oscar Engineering organization
• In this role, you will lead technical efforts to build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for both members and providers
• You will report into a leader within the Engineering Organization (Associate Director+)
• 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

5+ 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 as a leader of cross-pod or cross-company deliverables5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers7+ years of professional software engineering experience5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code