Software Engineering Lead

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:

• This is an IC role to effectively lead the development efforts wearing multiple hats (project lead, full stack developer, scrum master, etc.). It requires an individual with very good understanding of information security concepts and excellent knowledge/expertise in software development.
• Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment
• Play a key role in the future of software products by working closely with product management and other stakeholders to aid solution development
• Provide support for Service Availability, Stability and application performance
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Design and develop software applications and application components in an agile environment
• Create high-quality software by conducting peer design/code reviews and developing automated test cases
• 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
• 7+ years of relevant software development experience
• Experience developing audit applications using Python, Django, Flask
• Experience in deploying applications to AWS or Azure cloud platforms and leveraging managed services on the cloud
• Experience with front-end technologies like Angular and ReactJ, Node JS
• Experience with Micro services
• Experience in providing technical guidance and inculcating engineering best practices within development teams
• Software Engineering skills (Python, JavaScript, Flask, Django, SQL)
• Sound fundamentals of Python and technically hands-on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing for both front-end and backend
• Must have worked on the CI/CD tools – Jenkins, Git/GitHub/subversion or any code versioning tool, Gradle, and any of the AWS cloud platform, Java, NodeJs

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.

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