Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About the position

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. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for members and providers. You will work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems. Senior Engineers collaborate with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices.

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.

Requirements

• 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.

Nice-to-haves

• 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

• 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.
• Participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program.
• Company equity grants.
• Annual performance bonuses.