Senior Software Engineering Lead – Java, React, Cloud

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:

• Write high-quality, fault tolerant code; normally 70% Backend and 30% Front-end (though the exact ratio will depend on your interest and skills)
• Build high-scale systems, libraries, frameworks and create test plans
• Establish and Implement software best practices
• Provide mentorship and feedback for other team members
• Build new products (both web and mobile in React)
• Foster culture of quality and engineering excellence. Evolve existing products. Be involved in the software lifecycle, from requirements gathering to development, testing and releasing code
• Be a member of a cross functional team focused on understanding our members and building new tools to create awareness and engagement with the full range of tools and services available digitally
• Partner with product management and engineering leadership to bring creative technology and solutions to solve healthcare problems
• Accountable for Product quality along with the team. Support the application and keep the quality bar high
• 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:

• 3+ years of Experience with web or mobile development with relation to the User interface, experience and design
• 3+ years of web or mobile development with understanding of client and server topology and communication
• 3+ years of experience in Scala, Java, or other JVM language
• Preferred Qualifications:
• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical role or equivalent experience
• 5+ years of experience with Scala/Java
• 5+ years of experience with TDD
• 2+ years exposure on any cloud platform like Amazon or Azure or GCP
• 2+ years of experience with modern JS libraries and frameworks like Angular, React and React Native and/or Typescript
• Product related development experience within design and UX development. Experience in design and development
• Experience using RESTful APIs and asynchronous JS
• Experience with CSS, web browsers, HTTP, cookies, caching, and HTML5 web storage
• Experience in the Healthcare industry
• Familiar with authorization frameworks like oAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect
• Database and caching experience, SQL and NoSQL (Postgres, Elasticsearch, or MongoDB a plus)

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. #Gen