Senior Full Stack Engineer

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.

As a Sr Mobile Engineer for the Consumer Engineering Rx team you’ll be responsible for evaluating and executing on technical design/implementation direction for the Optum Pharmacy mobile roadmap and how it evolves into our One Pharmacy initiative.  We need someone with a solid background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best-practices.   An aptitude for collaboration across product & engineering teams is critical to further mature our existing products in to various mobile app surfaces.

We are looking for someone exhibiting exceptional experience with

• Architectural design
• Collaboration & mentoring
• Public cloud based serverless & event-based architectures
• Engineering best-practices
• DevSecOps
• Hands-on development knowledge (React Native, Typescript, Node JS)
• Performance engineering

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to system designs and mentor developers with native experiences for our Pharmacy microproducts which get ingested into multiple mobile apps
• Use your expertise to contribute to architectural foundations and provide guidance on development, with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt
• Delivery of roadmap that helps transform capabilities by combining access to the right tools, data, platforms and scalable computing with Optum’s healthcare expertise and industry leading data assets
• Produce high quality solutions that are highly reliable and scalable
• Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
• Encourage the growth of engineers through skills development, objectives and goal setting
• Collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team of engineers, product leaders, scrum masters and user experience engineers
• Support the software delivery team’s ability to rapidly deliver high-value, quality software through the use of automation and «everything – as – code» (EaC) best practices
• Ensure application stability with exceptional quality, reliability engineering, and security controls
• 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 JavaScript and TypeScript development experience
• 3+ years of experience with mobile development
• 2+ years with React Native
• 2+ years of experience with front-end web technologies, such as Angular, React, Node JS
• 2+ years of experience with back-end technologies, such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Rest API Development  
• 1+ years of experience with Redux, Redux-Saga for state management
• Experience enabling DevOps Maturity by driving CI/CD, automation, and continuous monitoring
• Experience facilitating and leading architecture and delivery planning activities across geographically diverse and multi-disciplinary teams
• Solid Full Stack Engineering Concepts (Front End Web Technologies and Back End Technologies) and hands-on on latest technologies
• Demonstrated ability to innovate with a deep technical understanding of emerging technologies to address needs and problems of providing services to large and technically progressive organizations
• Demonstrated communication skills including explaining complex concepts effectively to technical and nontechnical audience, negotiation and persuasion, conflict resolution, and presenting to executive levels management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven experience with iOS and Android development
• Experience with NativeBase.io
• Experience with formulating technology strategy
• Exposure to IaC (Infrastructure as Code) on Azure using Terraform and Azure Kubernetes Service

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.