Staff Software Engineer, Backend
Full-time
Oscar Health
Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert across relevant business and technical domains.
- Lead the planning, execution, and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams.
- Own medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion.
- Collaborate with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
- Lead and mentor engineers and engineering teams, establish best practices, and set team direction.
- Ensure delivery of large or complex technology capabilities across one or more domains.
- Identify and mitigate cross-team project risks and foster collaboration with engineering teams and internal customers.
- Drive functional-group and organization-wide technical outcomes.
- Influence technical and product roadmap prioritization and process improvements.
- Identify and reduce failure domains and build software that minimizes maintenance effort and business impact during failures.
- Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives for supported systems.
- Comply with applicable laws and regulations and perform other assigned duties.
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 5+ years of experience leading cross-pod or cross-company deliverables.
- 5+ years of experience leading technical contributions and improving the quality of team output.
- 5+ years of practical application of computer science concepts within a team.
- 5+ years of setting and enforcing standards for stable, correct, and maintainable code.
- 5+ years of leading technical teams, including mentoring and training junior engineers.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement requiring at least two days per week in the New York City, Tempe, or Los Angeles office and residence within commuting distance.
- Employee benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Unlimited vacation program and 11 paid holidays.
- Paid sick time, paid parental leave, paid wellness time, and wellness reimbursements.
- 401(k) plan participation, life insurance, disability insurance, employee equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.
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