Software Engineer – Remote in Canada – PST

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

If you are located in Canada in the PST time zone, you will have the flexibility to work remotely* as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the plans associated with the software development of features. Executes the design, development, deployment, and operation of cloud-based services. Contributes to prioritization of new features versus technical debt resolution
• Hold high standards in writing quality scalable and supportable code, complete with appropriate unit tests, automated testing, documentation, and operationalization aspects in a CI/CD environment
• Creation of documentation and adhering to standards
• Provides technical leadership to implement new functionality and improvements to existing implementations
• Provides training and mentoring to other team members in areas of expertise
• Interface with user representatives or other engineering groups to define requirements and/or necessary modifications when required
• Proactively collaborates with other teams to resolve roadblocks and ensure smooth delivery
• Lead by example and use your technical expertise and perspective to drive innovation
• Continuously identify and highlight areas of improvement that will grow a team to be more responsive and adaptable to changes
• To be part of on call rotation to support production issues

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 3+ years of professional software development experience in designing and building complex, highly scalable, performant, secure, reliable software systems and tools, ideally within cloud-native environment
• 2+ years of hand-on experiences in C# and .NET
• 2+ years of Database experience with NoSQL such as Couchbase, NGINX or similar, as well as microservices architecture and developing containerized application
• 1+ years of experience in Public Cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in the healthcare industry working with DICOM, HL7, FHIR
• Experience designing, creating, and securing APIs; Web Services (REST/JSON), OAuth, JWT, WS-Security, SAML
• Experience with Github
• Proven solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architecture
• Proven knowledge and experience working in Public Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure)
• Proven knowledge and experience working with Docker, Kubernetes
• Demonstrated understanding of data modeling and database theory (ACID, CAP etc.)
• Proficiency with TDD and CI/CD processes
• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment
• Proven leadership abilities in an engineering environment in driving operational excellence and best practices

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Canada Residents Only: The salary range for Canada residents is $63,300 to $131,500 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc.

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.