Staff Software Engineer, Fullstack

Oscar Health
Los Angeles, California, United States$192k – $252kPosted 27 February 2026

Job Description

<p>Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring Staff Software Engineers to join our Engineering team.</p> <p>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.</p> <h3>About the role</h3> <p>We are hiring for Staff Software Engineers, Fullstack (with a frontend lean) to join several teams across the Oscar Engineering organization.</p> <p>In this role, you will lead technical efforts to build reliable and maintainable applications, infrastructure, and interfaces that make interacting with the health care system easier for both members and providers.</p> <p>You will report into a leader within the Engineering Organization (Associate Director+).</p> <p><strong>Work Location: </strong>This position is based in our Los Angeles 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 and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid </p> <p><strong>Pay Transparency: </strong>The base pay for this role in is: $192,000 - $252,000 per year. You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses.</p> <h3>Responsibilities</h3> <ul> <li>Serve as the subject matter expert on business and technical domains.</li> <li>Lead the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects across multiple teams, including owning medium to large features or infrastructure projects from technical design through completion.</li> <li>Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.</li> <li>Lead and mentor engineers and engineering teams to improve technology, apply best practices and set overall team direction.</li> <li>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.</li> <li>Facilitate, encourage, and enhance a culture of collaboration within the engineering team and its internal customers; recognizing when cross-team projects are at risk and actively mitigate risk to deliver on time.</li> <li>Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, and plays a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects.</li> <li>Work with leadership to assign prioritization of technical roadmap and influence prioritization of product roadmap and process enhancements within their area and across related areas.</li> <li>Actively identifies and reduces failure domains while working with their team to do the same.</li> <li>Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.</li> <li>Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they and their team are responsible for.</li> <li>Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.</li> <li>Other duties as assigned.</li> </ul> <h3>Qualifications</h3> <ul> <li>7+ years of professional software engineering experience</li> <li>5+ years of experience as a leader of cross-pod or cross-company deliverables</li> <li>5+ years of experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create</li> <li>5+ years of experience with practical application of CS concepts within their team.</li> <li>5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code </li> <li>5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers.</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity. Learn more about how you can safeguard yourself from recruitment fraud</span><a href="http://hioscar.co ... (truncated, view full listing at source)