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:
Oscar is a blended work culture where everyone, regardless of work type or location, feels connected to their teammates, our culture and our mission.
If you live within commutable distance to our New York City office (in Hudson Square), our Tempe office (off the 101 at University Dr), or our Los Angeles office (in Marina Del Rey), you will be expected to come into the office at least two days each week. Otherwise, this is a remote / work-from-home role.
You must reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, or Washington, D.C. Note, this list of states is subject to change. #LI-Remote
Pay Transparency:
The base pay for this role in 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.
Reasonable Accommodation: Oscar applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Oscar applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact the Oscar Benefits Team (accommodations@hioscar.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.
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