Oscar Health · 3 months ago
Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Los Angeles, California, United States
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$158K/yr - $208K/yr
5+ years expOscar is a health insurance company focused on serving its members through a full stack technology platform. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Backend to build reliable applications and collaborate with partners and designers to improve healthcare interactions for members and providers.
Health CareHealth InsuranceInsuranceInsurTech
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
Qualification
Required
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
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
Preferred
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
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
Company
Oscar Health
Oscar is a health insurance company that offers individual and family plans, medicare advantages, and small group products.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (19)
2024 (24)
2023 (22)
2022 (36)
2021 (13)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1.99BKey Investors
Tiger Global ManagementAlphabetFounders Fund
2025-09-16Post Ipo Debt· $355M
2021-03-03IPO
2020-12-17Private Equity· $140M
Leadership Team
Mark Bertolini
Chief Executive Officer
Steven B. Kelmar
Executive Vice President & COS
Recent News
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