Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions. We’re Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving UnitedHealth Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through UnitedHealthcare & Optum.
 

We are seeking a dynamic individual who embodies modern engineering culture - someone with deep engineering expertise within a digital product model, a passion for innovation, and a relentless drive to enhance the consumer experience. Our ideal candidate thrives in an agile, fast-paced rapid-prototyping environment, embraces DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, and champions the Voice of the Customer. If you are driven by the pursuit of excellence, eager to innovate, and excited to make a tangible impact within a team that embraces modern technologies and consumer-centric strategies, while prioritizing robust cyber-security protocols, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us. Join our team and be at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare, where your unique skills will not only be recognized but celebrated.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design and develop reusable Microservice capabilities that meet customer requirements while upholding high standards of reliability, security, maintainability, and performance Lead solving complex problems and/or conduct complex analysis Build in monitoring instrumentation into applications Troubleshoot and support production systems when required Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor’s / Master’s degree in Computer Science (related field) or equivalent work experience  5+ years  of experience as software professionals with solid computer science fundamentals including but not limited to data structure, algorithms, networking, parallel and distributed computing 5+ years of software development experience 3+ years of development experience and expertise with AWS / AZURE / GCP using cloud native technologies (Not only infra) and Kubernetes (or any container orchestrator) 3+ years of experience in Cloud Implementations such as AWS / GCP Experience in developing/coding software components in Java or Scala, Spring framework, Spring Boot framework Experience on Databases, SQL programming, No SQL DBs - DynamoDB, ElasticSearch Experience on Python, Maven, RESTAPI's, Microservices Experience with Test Driven Development and Agile methodologies Expertise in Java or Scala programming language Proficient in learning & adopting new technologies and use them to execute the use cases for business problem solving Thorough understanding of fundamental software engineering and computer science principles: object-oriented development, Microservices, data access layer management, usability, debugging, and configuration management Demonstrated ability to apply the knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems and write code based on technical design Demonstrated technical capability (in writing) clearly to the use case scenarios presented during evaluation

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience in Health Care Industry Experience in Master Data Management or Record Linkage domain Experience developing SPA applications with a solid grasp in one or more relevant front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js etc) Experience on building Streaming Solutions using Kafka Experience on Apache Spark Understanding of Statistics and Probability, some experience with ML algorithms

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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