Staff Software Engineer, Backend

Oscar Health•New York, NY

1d•$192,000 - $252,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Oscar is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for its Engineering team. The role joins a distributed team and leads the design and development of enhancements to next-generation claims and payment processing systems. The work spans contract and pricing configuration, system extensibility through an internally developed DSL, and data-pipeline architecture and efficiency. The engineer selectively applies AI to automate and improve processes that were previously tedious and error-prone, while building scalable and reliable systems that support accurate and efficient claims and payment processing. This is a hybrid position. Employees must live within commuting distance of Oscar’s New York City office in Hudson Square, Tempe office near University Drive, or Los Angeles office in Marina del Rey, and are expected to work from the office at least two days each week. The role reports to the Director, Software Engineering.

Requirements

At least 7 years of professional software engineering experience.
At least 5 years of experience leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
At least 5 years of experience leading technical contributions and improving the quality of team output.
At least 5 years of experience applying computer science concepts in practice within a team.
At least 5 years of experience setting and enforcing standards for stable, correct, and maintainable code.
At least 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-scale 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.
Ensure the team delivers large or complex technology capabilities within its domain or across multiple domains.
Facilitate and strengthen collaboration within the engineering team and with internal customers; recognize risks to cross-team projects and actively mitigate them to deliver on time.
Contribute significantly to functional-group objectives and play a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects.
Work with leadership to prioritize the technical roadmap and influence product-roadmap and process-enhancement priorities within the role’s area and related areas.
Identify and reduce failure domains, and work with the team to do the same.
Build software that minimizes effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems owned by the engineer and their team.
Comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Perform other duties as assigned.