Staff Software Engineer Visa Sponsorship Jobs in Arizona
Arizona's tech sector is growing fast, with staff software engineer roles concentrated in Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe. Major employers including Intel, Amazon, PayPal, and Axon regularly hire at this level and have established visa sponsorship programs. The state's expanding semiconductor and fintech industries create consistent demand for senior engineering talent from abroad.
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Hi, we're Oscar. We're hiring Staff Software Engineers to join our Engineering team. 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.
About The Role
We are hiring for Staff Software Engineers, Fullstack (with a frontend lean) to join several teams across the Oscar Engineering organization. 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. You will report into a leader within the Engineering Organization (Associate Director+).
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.
Pay Transparency:
The base pay for this role 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.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the subject matter expert on business and technical domains.
- 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.
- Work with partners, product managers, and designers to solve challenging problems.
- Lead and mentor engineers and engineering teams to improve technology, apply best practices and set overall team direction.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prolific contributor to the objectives of their functional group, and plays a key role in driving outcomes for organization-wide projects.
- 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.
- Actively identifies and reduces failure domains while working with their team to do the same.
- Builds software to minimize effort and business impact during maintenance and failures.
- Guide the development of Service-Level Objectives (SLOs) for systems they and their team are responsible for.
- Compliance with all applicable laws and regulations.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience
- 5+ years of experience as a leader of cross-pod or cross-company deliverables
- 5+ years of experience leading technical contributions, improving the quality of what your teams create
- 5+ years of experience with practical application of CS concepts within their team.
- 5+ years of experience setting and enforcing the standard for writing stable, correct, and maintainable code
- 5+ years of experience leading technical teams including mentoring and training more junior engineers.
This is an authentic Oscar Health job opportunity. Learn more about how you can safeguard yourself from recruitment fraud here. 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.
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.
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Oscar applicants are considered solely based on their qualifications, without regard to applicant’s disability or need for accommodation. Any Oscar applicant who requires reasonable accommodations during the application process should contact the Oscar Benefits Team (accommodations@hioscar.com) to make the need for an accommodation known.
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Which companies sponsor visas for staff software engineers in Arizona?
Intel's Chandler campus, Amazon's Phoenix operations, PayPal, Axon, and GoDaddy are among the most active sponsors for staff software engineer roles in Arizona. Semiconductor firms tied to Arizona's chip manufacturing expansion and fintech companies headquartered in Scottsdale also sponsor regularly at this seniority level. Sponsorship history is visible through Department of Labor LCA disclosure data.
Which visa types are most common for staff software engineer roles in Arizona?
The H-1B visa is the most common visa for staff software engineers in Arizona, as the role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation requiring a relevant bachelor's degree or higher. Candidates already holding L-1 visa intracompany transferee status, O-1 visa extraordinary ability visas, or TN visa status (for Canadian and Mexican nationals) are also hired at this level without needing H-1B sponsorship.
Which cities in Arizona have the most staff software engineer sponsorship jobs?
Phoenix is the primary hub, with the highest concentration of tech employers and visa-sponsoring companies. Scottsdale and Tempe follow closely, driven by fintech, SaaS, and startup activity. Chandler is notable specifically for semiconductor and hardware-adjacent engineering roles, largely tied to Intel's significant presence there. Tucson has a smaller but active tech scene connected to the University of Arizona.
How to find staff software engineer visa sponsorship jobs in Arizona?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically by visa sponsorship availability, making it straightforward to find staff software engineer roles in Arizona without sorting through positions that don't sponsor. You can filter by location and role to see which Arizona employers are actively hiring at the staff level with sponsorship. This is more efficient than browsing general job boards where sponsorship details are rarely surfaced upfront.
Are there state-specific considerations for staff software engineers seeking sponsorship in Arizona?
Arizona's CHIPS Act investments have increased employer demand for senior engineers, particularly in semiconductor and hardware-adjacent software roles around the Phoenix metro. The University of Arizona and Arizona State University supply a pipeline of engineering talent, but employers frequently look internationally for staff-level candidates with specialized systems or distributed infrastructure experience. Prevailing wage requirements under H-1B rules apply based on the specific job location within Arizona.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored staff software engineer jobs in Arizona?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.