Tech Lead – Software Development

Opportunities with Episource, part of the Optum family of businesses. Join a premier provider of risk adjustment services, software and solutions that’s fueling innovation in the health care industry. Start a rewarding career where your work will empower health plans and medical groups with comprehensive end-to-end solutions designed to navigate health care efficiently. Our culture is rooted in innovation, encouraging our team to stay curious and engaged. By joining us, you become part of a global, remote/hybrid-friendly team dedicated to bridging health care gaps with a solid sense of social responsibility. At Episource, we are enriching lives, including those of our team members through Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As a team lead you will be responsible for leading a group of two to four individual contributors in the design and development of the Episource Analyst application. You will work closely with product owners and stakeholders to turn business requirements into functioning software systems. You will work with department leadership to formalize the processes that guide how your team operates.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Team Leads are experienced individual contributors and emerging people managers. You will be key in bridging the communication and requirements gap between individual contributors and product owners
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions
• Demonstrates personal integrity and high ethical standards in customer contacts as well as all internal relationships. Treats others with respect
• Tends to put employee needs first. Initiates and demonstrates ways to increase capacity and capabilities in others. Supports managers to ensure individuals are clear of what is expected and supported to achieve
• Listens for understanding and meaning; speaks and writes effectively internally and externally
• Establishes goals, clarifies tasks, plans work, and actively participates in meetings/activity towards positive outcomes
• Builds rapport and relates well to others. Seeks first to understand others’ point of view. Initiates and builds key relationships within function
• Produces code that is clear/simple, modular, loosely coupled, of low complexity, cleanly documented, meets requirements and is testable
• Frequently contributes to and reviews code in important, core and complex components and frameworks
• Demonstrates solid ability and influences others to choose proper off the shelf software frameworks and libraries when needed
• Guides the team in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions that minimize the cost of future changes
• Understands the testing philosophy and approach, writes unit tests as well as higher level tests. Uses quality metrics to identify gaps
• Designs, documents, and builds simple and scalable solutions for complex problems with elegant and reusable architectures resulting in modular services, functions, or workflows that are resilient, maintainable, easy to monitor and pioneer best practices for engineers
• Ensures cross-team dependencies are noted and well understood by teams involved and other relevant stakeholders
• Anticipates and communicates blockers and delays within their team’s projects before escalating
• Mentors across teams in a group or an individual setting in an open, respectful, and empathetic manner. Fosters a team culture of mentoring by seeking mentoring opportunities for themselves and others, and supports others in their growth as mentors
• Requires an individual to maintain the ability to work in an environment with PHI / PII data
• May be assigned other duties
• Must maintain compliance with all company policies and procedures
• 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:

• At least 3+ years of experience in web application development, including leading technical decision making for a team
• Must either have experience with people management, or a desire to take on people management responsibilities including weekly one on ones, mentoring, performance reviews, etc.
• Working knowledge of design patterns/anti patterns
• Working knowledge of microservices architectures
• Working knowledge of highly scalable distributed and cloud native databases
• Proficient at building applications with TypeScript or another modern C-style language
• Proven excellent verbal, non-verbal, and written communication skills, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Good working knowledge of React, Node.js, GraphQL, SQL, and modern CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s of Computer Science, or equivalent combination of education and experience, professional certification
• Experience with event sourcing tooling like AWS Kinesis or Apache Kafka
• Working knowledge of event driven and cloud architectures

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.