Oscar Health: Senior Software Engineer, Backend — Tempe, Arizona, United States

About Oscar Health

Oscar Health is a health-insurance business built around a technology platform and member services. Its recruitment board also describes Oscar Medical Group activities in virtual health assessments and virtual care. Those notices reflect distinct parts of the wider operation: insurance products and member administration alongside clinical services. Technology, insurance operations and care delivery consequently appear in different roles on the board, with the employing team determining the service and professional responsibilities of an individual position.

The position and its setting

Oscar Health lists Senior Software Engineer, Backend in Tempe, Arizona, United States, under reference 7205654. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 28 August 2025

Responsibilities and work described

• 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
• 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
• 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 and events, while your other two office days are flexible to suit your schedule. #LI-Hybrid
• Pay Transparency: The base pay for this role is: $158,400 - $207,900 per year
• You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses
• Become the expert on your team's business and technical domains
• Leadership: the planning, execution and release of complex technical projects
• Collaboration: with other engineers on the team to improve technology and apply best practices
• Implementation: 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

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 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; our company may be new, but the health industry isn't!
• Experience: technical contributions, improving the quality of what you create, and are excited to build fault-tolerant, and scalable software systems
• Demonstrates 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

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• 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
• This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity
• Pay Transparency: Final offer amounts, within the base pay set forth above, are determined by factors including your relevant skills, education, and experience
• Full-time employees are eligible for benefits including: medical, dental, and vision benefits, 11 paid holidays, paid sick time, paid parental leave, 401(k) plan participation, life and disability insurance, and paid wellness time and reimbursements
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): Our AI Guidelines outline the acceptable use of artificial intelligence for candidates and detail how we use AI to support our recruiting efforts
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Location, schedule and contract conditions

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• 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
• Advertised location: Tempe, Arizona, United States

Pay and application dates

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How to apply to Oscar Health

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official Oscar Health posting below and match the title and reference 7205654.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the Tempe, Arizona, United States position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

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Practical preparation: Python

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Relevant skills

• Python
• Kubernetes
• AI/ML
• AI
• compliance
• insurance