Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Oscar Health; Los Angeles (CA); Hybrid; USD 192,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited vacation

Company equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

A leading health insurance technology firm is looking for Staff Software Engineers to join its Los Angeles team. You will lead technical projects and develop applications that improve healthcare interactions. The ideal candidate has over 7 years of experience in software engineering and a proven track record in leadership, mentoring, and technical contributions. The position offers a competitive salary of $192,000 – $252,000 annually, with benefits such as unlimited vacation, company equity, and performance bonuses.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
• 5+ years improving quality of team outputs.
• 5+ years applying CS concepts practically.
• 5+ years enforcing standards for stable, maintainable code.
• 5+ years leading and mentoring technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as subject matter expert on technical domains.
• Lead complex technical projects across teams.
• Collaborate with partners and product managers.
• Mentor engineers and set team direction.
• Ensure delivery of complex technology capabilities.
• Promote collaboration within the engineering team.
• Contribute to organizational project outcomes.
• Guide prioritization of technical and product roadmaps.
• Identify and reduce failure domains.

Skills

Professional software engineering experience

Leadership of cross-pod deliverables

Mentoring and training junior engineers

Job description

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring Staff Software Engineers 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

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+).

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 $192,000 – $252,000 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.

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.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience as a leader of 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 application of 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.

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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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