Software Engineering Lead Java Backend

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.

If you are a Software Engineer who takes pride in what you deliver and passionate about building highly scalable applications, we have a great opportunity for you. We are looking for a Software Engineer who can help us build a new application or modernize existing applications. You will serve as an individual contributor and help us to meet requirements with clients.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide technology leadership to a solid engineering team
• Design and implement micro-services, implement telemetry solutions, and build CI/CD pipelines
• Come up with long term architecture roadmap for the existing products
• Grab functionalities quickly and apply technical skills to excel
• Present and evaluate design solutions objectively
• Participation in Design reviews, Test Case reviews, and Production readiness for new releases
• Monitor application health and performance as part of DevSecOps
• Create innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business and to improve the overall health and reliability of the applications
• Define coding standards and best practices
• Coach and mentor other developers in the team
• 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:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering
• 7+ years of solid experience with Java, J2EE, Spring and Hibernate/Spring Data JPA. 3+ years of experience designing and implementing RESTful services
• 3+ years of experience in building microservices using Spring Boot
• 2+ years of experience development/ maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases 
• 2+ years of Agile delivery experience
• 2+ years of cloud experience preferrable Azure
• 1+ years of experience developing applications in ReactJS including component design and state management for specific use cases
• Hands-on implementation experience, should be able to design, implement key product/application features, be an active part of an Agile Scrum team
• Good understanding and experience in Performance tuning and engineering 
• Good technical skills to understand complex designs, implement big and complex systems

Preferred Qualifications:

• Healthcare industry experience
• Experience delivering software using Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience in Kafka or other event streaming technologies
• Experience in Docker, Azure, Jenkins, Grafana, Splunk
• Experience working in a DevOps model
• Exposure or experience in working on Camunda platform 
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, fluid environment while maintaining adherence to standards and best practices
• Proven solid communication and problem solving skills

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.