Oscar Health: Engineering Leader — New York, New York, 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 Engineering Leader in New York, New York, United States, under reference 6615366. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Engineering
• Employer listing date: 31 March 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• As an Engineering Manager, you will oversee every stage of engineering development, from conceptualization and design to rigorous testing and successful deployment, ensuring our engineering projects drive innovation and provide value
• You'll lead engineers to help them design for stability, performance, and scalability across services or clients
• In this role, you will identify and solve the most valuable business problems by blending deep user empathy and sharp product intuition with a thorough understanding of Oscar’s operating model and business levers
• Serve as a strategic partner to engineering, data, and design to lead complex, cross-domain initiatives, ensuring direct alignment with senior leadership on priorities and outcomes
• Act as force multiplier—mentoring engineers, influencing product practices, and consistently raising the bar on technical quality, organizational clarity, and business impact
• Management: a team of engineers, focusing on professional development, performance management, and technical mentorship
• Oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of complex technical projects, ensuring they meet deadlines and quality standards
• Leadership: architectural decisions and technical design for full-stack applications
• Partner with Product, Design, and other engineering leads to define roadmaps and solve business challenges
• Promote best practices in software development, including code reviews, testing, and documentation
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks in the development process to improve team velocity and system reliability

Essential requirements and candidate background

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, working with a variety of technologies, and have increasingly impactful accomplishments
• 2+ years of experience in engineering management or a technical lead role
• Experience proposing, experimenting, and iterating, whether it be a new shiny technology or an arcane, ill-conceived data structure
• 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

• Advanced experience with frontend architecture and building end-to-end web applications
• Proficiency: designing micro services, optimizing database performance, or working with distributed systems
• Familiarity: integrating Machine Learning models, working with Large Language Models (LLMs), or building data-driven features
• Background in healthcare or other highly regulated industries
• Pay Transparency:
• The base pay for this role is: $163,944 - $215,176 per year
• You are also eligible for employee benefits, participation in Oscar’s unlimited vacation program, company equity grants, and annual performance bonuses
• 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
• Oscar is a blended work culture where everyone, regardless of work type or location, feels connected to their teammates, our culture and our mission
• Advertised location: New York, New York, United States

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Engineering Leader vacancy is not an offer for reference 6615366; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

A closing date is not confirmed in this article. Check the current employer page before submitting: an undated posting can change or be withdrawn.

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 6615366.

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

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Practical preparation: machine learning

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Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• LLMs
• machine learning
• AI
• insurance