Software Engineer

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and develop reusable microservice capabilities that meet customer requirements while upholding high standards of reliability, security, maintainability, and performance
  
• Demonstrate a thorough understanding of fundamental software engineering and computer science principles, including object-oriented development, microservices, data access layer management, usability, debugging, and configuration management
  
• Lead the resolution of complex problems and conduct in-depth analysis
  
• Utilize Test Driven Development and Agile methodologies
  
• Integrate monitoring instrumentation into applications
  
• Troubleshoot and support production systems as needed
• 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 or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of software development experience
  
• 3+ years of development experience and expertise with AWS, Azure, or GCP using cloud-native technologies (not just infrastructure) and Kubernetes (or any container orchestrator)
• 1+ years of experience in cloud implementations such as AWS or GCP
  
• Experience with databases, SQL programming, and NoSQL databases like DynamoDB and Elasticsearch
  
• Familiarity with Python, Maven, REST APIs, and microservices
  
• Expertise in Java or Scala programming language
  
• Proficiency in developing and coding software components using Java or Scala, Spring framework, and Spring Boot framework
  
• Proven ability to quickly learn and adopt new technologies to solve business problems
  
• Proven capability to apply principles and techniques to solve technical problems and write code based on technical design
  
• Proven solid computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, networking, parallel and distributed computing
  
• Demonstrated technical capability in writing, clearly addressing use case scenarios during evaluation
  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the healthcare industry
  
• Experience developing Single Page Applications (SPA) with solid proficiency in one or more front-end frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js, etc.)
  
• Experience building streaming solutions using Kafka
  
• Some experience with AI/ML 
• Knowledge of Master Data Management or Record Linkage domain
  
• Familiarity with Apache Spark
  
• Understanding of statistics and probability, with some experience in machine learning 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.