Senior Software Engineer, Backend
About The Position
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for members and providers. You will work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems. Senior Engineers collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices. 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
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
- Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating, whether it be a new shiny technology or an arcane, ill-conceived data structure; our company may be new, but the health industry isn't!
- Experience with technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems.
- Demonstrates solid understanding of the practical application of CS concepts within their team.
- Consistently writes stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight; writes modular, adaptable code with guidance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting libraries and writing in Python and Golang.
- Experience owning observability stack tooling, e.g. Grafana, BigQuery, Kubernetes.
- Experience working in data and engineering tooling, e.g. discovery libraries, data replication, data transfer tools, authentication, authorization libraries.
Responsibilities
- Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains.
- Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects.
- Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
- Collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.
- Implement step-wise technical migrations of our existing services and applications.
- Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion with little required guidance.
- Independent contributor to their team.
- Work effectively across the codebase with appropriate guidance from code owners.
- Make steady, well-paced progress without requiring frequent significant feedback from more senior engineers.
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- employee benefits
- participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program
- company equity grants
- annual performance bonuses
- medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
- paid sick time
- paid parental leave
- 401(k) plan participation
- life and disability insurance
- paid wellness time and reimbursements
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
