Staff Software Engineer at Oscar Health In Other

Staff Software Engineer
Oscar Health // health insurance

Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring a Staff Software Engineer to join our Engineering team.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform & a focus on serving our members. We started Oscar in 2012 to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselvesone that behaves like a doctor in the family.

About the role

As a Staff Software Engineer you'll join our distributed team, leading the design & development of enhancements to our next-generation claims & payment processing systems. You will work on a broad problem space spanning contract & pricing configuration, system extensibility through our internally developed DSL, & data pipeline architecture & efficiency. You'll selective apply AI to solve hard problems, automating & improving processes that previously tedious & error-prone. Your focus will be on building scalable & reliable systems that ensure the accuracy & efficiency of our claims & payment processes.

You will report to the Director, Software Engineering.

Work Location: This position is based in our Tempe, AZ 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 & events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid

Pay Transparency:

The base pay for this role is: $192,000 - $252,000 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, & annual performance bonuses.

Responsibilities

Serve as the subject matter expert on business & technical domains.
Lead the planning, execution & 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, & designers to solve challenging problems.
Lead & mentor engineers & engineering teams to improve technology, apply best practices & 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, & enhance a culture of collaboration within the engineering team & its internal customers; recognizing when cross-team projects are at risk & actively mitigate risk to deliver on time.
Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, & plays a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects.
Work with leadership to assign prioritization of technical roadmap & influence prioritization of product roadmap & process enhancements within their area & across related areas.
Actively identifies & reduces failure domains while working with their team to do the same.
Builds software to minimize effort & business impact during maintenance & failures.
Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they & their team are responsible for.
Compliance with all applicable laws & 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 & enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, & maintainable code
5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring & training more junior engineers.

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Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, & experience. Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, & vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life & disability insurance, & paid wellness time & reimbursements.

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