Senior Software Engineer II

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

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless 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.

About this role:

As a Senior Software Engineer II, Infrastructure, you'll lead technical efforts to build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for members and providers.

We take pride in our small teams (engineers <= 5), our efforts (deploys > 100/day), and our ambition (deployment frequency == everyday).

You will report into our Senior Engineering Manager. This is a remote / work-from-home role. You must reside in one of the following states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, or Washington, D.C. Note, this list of states is subject to change. #LI-Remote

The base pay for this role is: $173,040 - $227,115 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, company equity grants and annual performance bonuses.

Primary Duties and 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

• Lead and mentor engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices

• Independently responsible for large or complex technology capabilities (set of components or services) within their team's domain or spanning multiple domains

• Facilitates, encourages, and enhances cross-team execution and collaboration; knows when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigates risk to deliver on time

• Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, as well as (potentially) organization-wide projects

• Drives prioritization of technical roadmap and influences prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their team

• Actively identifies and reduces failure domains

• Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures 

• Guides the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they are responsible for

• Own medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion 

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments

• Experience as a major contributor cross-pod or cross-company deliverables

• Experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems.

• Demonstrates expertise of the practical application of CS concepts within their team.

• Sets and enforces the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code 

• Experience mentoring and training more junior engineers

 

Competencies/success factors 

• Strong problem-solving skills and critical thinking skills

• Ability to understand key objectives and prioritize tasks

• Ability to maintain positive relationships with Oscar members and internal teams

• Takes initiative and works under own direction

• Initiates and generates activity and introduces changes into work processes 

• Makes quick, clear decisions which may include tough choices or considered risks

• Responds quickly to the needs of an audience and to their reactions and feedback

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At Oscar, being an Equal Opportunity Employer means more than upholding discrimination-free hiring practices. It means that we cultivate an environment where people can be their most authentic selves and find both belonging and support. We're on a mission to change health care -- an experience made whole by our unique backgrounds and perspectives..