Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Description For Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Oscar Health, the pioneering health insurance company founded in 2012, is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Backend team. This role offers a competitive salary range of $158,400 - $207,900 and combines technical excellence with meaningful impact in healthcare technology.
The position involves building reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that simplify healthcare system interactions for members and providers. As a Senior Engineer, you'll lead complex technical projects, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive technological improvements while maintaining best practices.
The role offers flexibility with a blended work culture, allowing remote work with optional office presence in New York City, Tempe, or Los Angeles. You'll need 5+ years of professional software engineering experience and strong expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant systems. Experience with Python, Golang, and Kubernetes is particularly valuable.
Oscar Health provides an impressive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, unlimited vacation, equity grants, and performance bonuses. The company's mission to revolutionize healthcare through technology offers a unique opportunity to work on meaningful problems while advancing your career in a supportive, innovative environment.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong technical abilities, independence in project execution, and the capability to mentor others while contributing to Oscar's mission of making healthcare more accessible and user-friendly through technology. This role presents an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers looking to make a significant impact in the healthcare technology sector while working with modern technologies and practices.
Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, Backend
- 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 to improve technology and apply best practices
- Implement step-wise technical migrations of existing services and applications
- Own small to medium features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion
- Work effectively across the codebase with appropriate guidance from code owners
- Make steady, well-paced progress without requiring frequent significant feedback
Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, Backend
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating with technologies
- Experience with technical contributions and building fault-tolerant, scalable software systems
- Demonstrates solid understanding of CS concepts within their team
- Ability to write stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight
Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, Backend
- 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
- Unlimited vacation program
- Company equity grants
- Annual performance bonuses
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