Software Engineering Lead UI React

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 front end development 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:

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including designers and backend developers, to translate design concepts and user stories into interactive and responsive web applications using React
• Developing new user-facing features and components, leveraging React’s component-based architecture, and ensuring optimal rendering performance
• Optimizing web applications for maximum speed and scalability, while ensuring a smooth and delightful user experience across various devices and browsers
• Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future
• Troubleshooting, debugging & optimizing code to enable maximum performance across devices and browsers
• Providing code documentation and other inputs to technical documents.
• Conducting and participating in code reviews and providing constructive feedback to team members
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to define project requirements and scope
• 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:

• 5+ years of progressive experience in Software Engineering
• 4+ years of experience developing applications in React including component design and state management for specific use cases
• 2+ years of experience with Java, design and implementation of RESTful services and building microservices using Spring boot
• 2+ years of Agile delivery experience, with excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and agile development environment
• 2+ years of experience development/ maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• 2+ years of experience working with relational and/or NoSQL databases
• 2+ years of cloud experience preferrable Azure
• Solid experience in React.js as well as experience in React.js workflows (Flux/Redux)
• Hands-on experience in understanding of RESTful APIs and experience integrating them into React applications
• Experience with state management libraries like Redux or MobX, and knowledge of React Hooks implementation
• Proficient in React.js and its core principles, and have a solid understanding of related web technologies such as JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3
• Familiar with front-end build tools and bundlers like Webpack, Babel, or Parcel
• Familiar with performance management and tuning using 
• Proven solid problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and a passion for creating visually stunning and intuitive user interfaces

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience delivering software using Agile/Scrum methodology
• Experience in implementing Responsive design
• Experience in web and mobile development using Adobe experience manager 
• Experience in Mobile Development 
• Experience in Docker, Azure, Jenkins, Grafana, Splunk
• Experience working in a DevOps model
• Healthcare industry experience
• Proven solid communication and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work in a fast paced, fluid environment while maintaining adherence to standards and best practices

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.