Staff Software Engineer - AI & Payments Leader

Oscar Health; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

Oscar Health is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in a hybrid capacity with offices in New York, Tempe, or Los Angeles. You’ll lead design and development of claims and payment processing enhancements, and help scale our data pipelines and configuration systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product managers and designers, and help set technical direction while delivering reliable, maintainable software that supports our members and health plans.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create.
• 5+ years of experience with practical CS concepts within their team.
• 5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Distributed systems

Mentoring

CS fundamentals

Job description

Oscar Health is hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team in a hybrid capacity with offices in New York, Tempe, or Los Angeles. You’ll lead design and development of claims and payment processing enhancements, and help scale our data pipelines and configuration systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, partner with product managers and designers, and help set technical direction while delivering reliable, maintainable software that supports our members and health plans.