Principal Software Engineer – Spring boot, Spring Cloud, Jenkins, Kubernetes, API

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.

Description: Lead Software Engineer who will have the below primary responsibilities:

·                Leads and owns the solution analysis, design, implementation, and production release of API capabilities independently or together with other software engineers in the team. 

·                Serves as a mentor and provides consultancy to team members in technology best practices, 

·                Participate in troubleshooting sessions/war rooms to provide insights, recommendations, and updates to the leadership about the resolutions and impacts.

·                Evaluate and drive adoption of new technologies, tools, and design patterns to provide better productivity, delivery quality, and cost effective implementations to the organization.

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience on production-grade systems
• Fullstack Java developer with over 8 years of experience in an agile environment with design, development, testing, documentation and deployment
• 6+ years of experience with Java, Spring boot, Docker, Kubernetes
• 4+ years of hands-on experience working on a cloud platform (Azure, GCP)
• Experience working and collaborating with geographically distributed teams
• Experience building CI/CD pipeline
• Experience in constructing and maintaining API infrastructure.
• Expert in microservice-based development
• Ability to apply development best practices adhering to engineering principles by writing high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable
• Ability to support production deployment, system maintenance and operations of the applications, respond to incident tickets in a timely manner
• Ability to participate in GitHub PRs, peer designs, code, tests and automation, providing optimization and simplification recommendations
• Proven excellent problem solving and debugging skills
• Solid programming skills utilizing Java 11 and up, Spring boot Microservices, Rest APIs

·                Agile Tools – Rally

Preferred Qualifications:

·                Experience with Kafka, Azure Cosmos DB

• Knowledgeable in Healthcare Platform

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.