Full Stack Engineer

Full Stack Engineer – Letterkenny/Dublin, Hybrid

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. 

About the Role:

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter. 
We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we’re on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.

The Full Stack Engineer will join a collaborative engineering team. This role will focus on design, architecture, and implementation of software components as well as the overall solution, utilizing concepts, and best engineering practices of microservices architecture. As Full Stack Software Engineer you play an essential role in delivering new products and improvements to provide our customers and partners future proof, flexible and scalable solutions, while maintaining high quality standards. You will be responsible for analysis, design, automation, engineering, research and development, implementation, following and implementing design patterns and principles, utilizing concepts of clean architecture and clean code.

Working Schedule:

This is a full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, standard business hours.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Letterkenny or Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities of the Full Stack Engineer:

•    Develop and maintain server-side and client-side applications using React/Nextjs, TypeScript, Java, Spring Boot, ensuring code quality, efficiency, and adherence to best practices.
•    Design and implement scalable and efficient data structures and algorithms to optimize application performance.
•    Ensure seamless integration of front-end and back-end components to deliver fully functional systems.
•    Collaborate with UI/UX designers to create user-friendly interfaces and ensure a seamless user experience
•    Design and implement RESTful APIs and microservices architecture to facilitate communication between different components of the system
•    Utilize design patterns to create modular, reusable, and maintainable code.
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new features.
•    Write efficient, testable, and reusable code
•    Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
•    Implement security and data protection measures.
•    Proactively identify areas for innovation and optimization.
•    Troubleshoot, debug, and upgrade existing systems.
•    Participate in code reviews to maintain code quality and share knowledge.
•    Stay updated with industry trends and technologies related to Java, React, Spring Boot, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud technologies, and microservices

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Full Stack Engineer:

•    Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other related discipline.
•    Proficient in React and its core principles, including hooks, state management, and component lifecycle.
•    Knowledge in Java, Spring Framework, Spring Boot.
•    Proficiency in HTML5, CSS3, TypeScript/JavaScript.
•    Have previously used front-end build tools and package managers.
•    Experience with RESTful API design and implementation.
•    Experience with microservices architecture.
•    Background using relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL).
•    Experience with unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing frameworks.
•    Experience with containerization technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes
•    Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens.
•    Knowledge of security best practices in web development.
•    Understanding of front-end build tools and pipelines.
•    Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.
•    A strong attention to detail, and a passion for delivering high-quality code.

Preferred Qualifications:

•    Experience in messaging and streaming technologies such as Kafka.
•    Knowledge of Cloud solutions (AWS, Azure, GCP)
•    Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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