Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

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

Benefits offered by this job

Employee benefits

Unlimited vacation program

Company equity grants

Annual performance bonuses

Job summary

Oscar is hiring Staff Software Engineers based in Los Angeles, requiring a hybrid schedule. The role involves leading technical projects, mentoring engineers, and ensuring delivery of complex technology capabilities.

Applicants should have over 7 years of software engineering experience and a strong background in team leadership and mentorship. Benefits include equity grants and unlimited vacation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading cross-company deliverables.
• Experience in mentoring and training junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the subject matter expert on business and technical domains.
• Lead planning and execution of complex technical projects.
• Mentor engineers and lead teams to improve technology.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Technical mentorship

Collaboration

Code quality

Job description

Hi, we’re Oscar. We’re hiring Staff Software Engineers to join our Engineering team.

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. #LI-Hybrid

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.

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.

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.