Senior Software Engineer I

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.  

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and develop software applications and application components in an agile environment using the E2E Java framework on Azure or GCP cloud platform
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Create high-quality software by conducting peer design or code reviews and developing automated test cases
• Design patterns and optimize the performance of services
• Act as a hands-on engineer, leading by example and working independently
• Build production-ready features and capabilities adhering to the best engineering standards
• Share knowledge internally with peers and leaders, acting as a resource for teams and business units within areas of expertise
• Collaborate with Principal Engineers or Technical Architects to develop prototypes into production-ready features
• Leverage the latest technologies to solve complex problems facing the health care industry
• Guide and mentor junior engineers within the organization
• Writing SQL queries
• Understand the ins and outs of our product and identify gaps
• Analyzes data to identify trends in product quality or defects with the goal of mitigating and preventing recurrence and future defects
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience
• 6+ years of software development experience, with at least 5+ years focused on Java or J2EE software development on Azure/GCP cloud platforms, including Java, Spring framework, multi-threading, caching techniques, software engineering best practices, and performance optimization of services using memory management, garbage collection, CI or CD systems such as Jenkins, and code management tools like GitHub. Java full stack (API backend heavy)
• 6+ years of professional software development experience on the Java platform
• 3+ years of experience in API and Integrations: Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs and event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar technologies
• Experience designing and developing data-driven applications using RDMBS (Oracle, PL or SQL) and/or NoSQL datastores

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.