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:

• Design, implement and maintain Java application within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software working with established processes
• Communicate effectively with team members
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Fix production and non-production application issues
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize application
• Provide technical support and consultation for the application and infrastructure questions Serve as a mentor to less experienced Developers
• 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.
• Experience in providing technical guidance and inculcating engineering best practices within development teams
• Experience with DevOps Tools like Jenkins Deploy
• Experience in conducting design and code reviews
• Experience creating version management strategy and working knowledge of version control systems like Git/GitHub
• Solid experience developing web applications on the Java platform (Struts, Spring Boot, micro services, JUnit)
• Knowledge of data model design and implementation for solutions from high level requirement
• Solid knowledge of RDBMS and experience working with SQL Server/Oracle and No SQL including writing complex join queries and SQL query tuning
• Exposure to complete software product lifecycle encompassing requirements analysis, prototyping, architecture, design, development, testing and deployment
• Ability to code with good JUNIT coverage and code quality
• Proven great level of engagement in scrum activities especially in planning and grooming calls
• Proven ability to independently troubleshoot problems and zero in on the likely root causes for Sev1 production issues
• Proven ability to be ready to participate in deployment activities and production incident resolution
• Proven proactive in identifying and escalating potential risks and impediments and coming up with alternative solutions
• Proven appetite for understanding Business requirements, its highly important to understand business and the requirements that come up from time to time very thoroughly

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Cloud based technologies such as azure technologies
• Experience with JAVA Spark and Bigdata systems
• Experience working in teams following Agile development methodologies (Iterative, Scrum)
• Experience with Linux or UNIX platform
• Fundamental knowledge of algorithms and data structures
• Proven sound understanding of basic operating system and networking concepts
• Ability to do POC on emerging tech stack

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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