Senior Software Engineer, Backend
Oscar Health · New York, New York, United States
Posted about 3 months ago · $158,400 - $207,900
or apply directly on Oscar Health's site. We never take the application ourselves.
Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 82 days Oscar Health's roles stay open a median of 79 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- Yes 90% of Oscar Health's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Oscar Health
- high 303 stale, 9 reposted of 303 open
- Hiring momentum
- 439 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-10-24
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Oscar Health's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Oscar Health.
About this role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Oscar, you will develop reliable applications and infrastructure to enhance interactions within the healthcare system. Your role involves collaborating with product managers and designers to tackle complex challenges, leading technical projects, and contributing to the overall improvement of technology within the team. You will also be responsible for implementing technical migrations and owning features or infrastructure projects from design to completion.
- benefits
- 5/5
- freshness
- 1/5
- career value
- 4/5
- role clarity
- 4/5
- pay transparency
- 5/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Oscar Health as an employer.
What you need
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating with technologies
- Experience with technical contributions and building fault-tolerant, scalable software systems
- Solid understanding of practical application of computer science concepts
- Ability to write stable, correct, and maintainable code with little oversight
Nice to have
- 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
What you get
- Base pay of $158,400 - $207,900 per year
- Participation in Oscar's unlimited vacation program
- Company equity grants
- Annual performance bonuses
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 11 paid holidays
Worth weighing
- Hybrid work schedule with 3 days in-office required
- Thursday is a mandatory in-office day for team meetings
- Role involves working in the healthcare industry, which may have unique challenges
Summarised from Oscar Health's posting. Read the full original.
Listed by Oscar Health on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-24. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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