Senior Software Engineer – JAVA

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. 

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.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Basic, structured, standard approach to work
• Full-stack application development using React, Java, and Angular
• Improving application functionality to meet changing business needs and requirements
• Creating high-level and detailed design specifications that enable troubleshooting and day-to-day build activities
• Researching and becoming the Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the interaction of the service with source systems and consumers (business users)
• Developing new apps and enhancing existing portals
• 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:

• B. Tech and/or MS in computer science or equivalent
• 3+ years of experience of solid UI Development using Angular and React. Design, development and support using Java/J2EE technologies
• 3+ years of experience of Developing applications using Java, Servlets, JSP, JDBC, HTML, CSS, spring, Angular, React and JavaScript frameworks
• 3+ years of software development with Microservices architecture and spring boot java framework
• 3+ years of experience of developing efficient user interaction using JavaScript, , Angular.js, and react as scripting libraries.
• 3+ years of experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure and container orchestration platforms (e.g., AWS,
• Knowledge or experience with Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes) and automation tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform) to automate tasks related to provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of GitHub Actions and runner farm environments
• Solid understanding of software development principles, version control systems (particularly Git and GitHub), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC) concepts
• In-depth knowledge of GitHub features, including Actions, workflows, repositories, branches, pull requests, and permissions management
• Knowledge on testing using Data Quality Framework
• Knowledge on DevOps – Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Redis, Sonar, Fortify
• Knowledge on Development Methodology or Engineering Practices – Agile (SCRUM / KANBAN / SAFe)

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.