Software Engineer – Java

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.

The application developer is responsible for performing design, coding, unit testing and ensuring conformance to the team’s development process and standards.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Adherence to and advocacy of environment standards
• Review of requirements and/or systems analysis documents for completeness
• Creation/involvement in documented designs following agreed to design patterns and standards
• Coding and unit testing
• Support the QA team during testing via defect fixes, code deployment, clarifications
• Working with the Deployment Lead, peer developers to complete various project deployment activities
• Adhere to proper use of source control
• Ensuring delivery of technical artifacts for each project
• 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:

• 1 – 3 years of relevant experience in Java, J2EE technologies
• Experience in Web services- Restful and Soap
• Experience on Eclipse/IntelliJ Idea and Jboss, WebSphere/Web logic servers
• Experience of working in a global environment
• Good working knowledge in SPRING, IOC, AOP and Transaction Management
• Very good in development of applications using Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Rest Web services, Hibernate & MySQL DB
• Proficient in use of application servers preferably WebSphere
• Proven ability to execute Unit Testing (Plan, Prepare & Execute)
• Proven good communication skills

Preferred Qualification:

• Prior experience of healthcare

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.