Principal Software 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 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:

• Create solid web application, database, data pipeline, API, and cloud infrastructure solutions with an emphasis on reuse, quality, and simplicity
• Mentor and coach the other engineers to overcome obstacles and help them to deliver the best technical solutions
• Manage daily stand-ups and collaborate with many engineers, analysts, and business partners
• Develop robust, configurable, and scalable solutions that meet functional needs. Ensure technical requirements are incorporated into solutions such as performance, availability, security, and disaster recovery
• Support all phases of testing including functional, performance, and user testing
• Implement, protect, and support many private REST APIs
• Apply modern software engineering best practices to create the best outcomes
• Create reusable and elegant code that is version controlled using git/GitHub
• Quickly identify defect root causes and drive towards resolution within an incident management lifecycle
• Uses a critical thinking and proactive mindset to prevent issues and write mature software
• 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:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years of Python development experience
• 5+ years of web service development experience with Flask, FastAPI, or a comparable web framework
• 5+ years of experience working with HTML, JavaScript, CSS, Bootstrap 5, JQuery, and other front-end technologies. The person needs to have good attention to detail and be able to produce intuitive user interfaces with consistent patterns
• 5+ years of SQL development experience with MySQL, PostgreSQL, or a similar relational database
• 3+ years of automated code deployment experience using git and CI/CD technologies (e.g. Jenkins)
• 3+ years of experience with Docker and containerized deployments
• 2+ years of experience managing cloud-hosted services and production environments in either Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud 
• Proven excellent communication skills
• Proven excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting abilities

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.