Senior Software Engineer – Remote Nationwide

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. 

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate experience with the full development life cycle for large-scale software products
• Actively lead and participate in analysis of product features driving technical solutions, recommending alternative technical and business approaches
• Gather and analyze data to author, review and maintain engineering documentation where needed to make informed implementation decisions
• Collaborate with architecture and lead software engineer to ensure that solutions align with architectural principles, design patterns, and enterprise security requirements
• Independently designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components adhering to secure coding, quality and maintainability best practices with minimal guidance
• Guides feature team in technical discussions and mentors other team members in code design and implementation
• Collaborate and communicate effectively with other engineers and offshore/global teams and facilitates this communication when needed
• Provide mentorship in technical implementations, problem resolution, and foster technical growth in feature team members
• Take ownership of assigned features to ensure team members are able to accomplish sprint goals
• Communicate effectively with business stakeholders, internal and external technical teams, and engineering leadership
• Proactively identify and prevent technical debt, champion continuous improvement and adoption of test automation
• Participate in an Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases through Sprints
• Work with team to address and resolve production support issues after deployment, providing solutions as needed
• Participate in building, deploying, monitoring, and operation of production services
• Provide technical assistance in occasional on-call rotation after hours support and work with the team to troubleshoot and investigate system defects
• Actively share and seek out knowledge across engineering teams to help facilitate improvements in overall team technical maturity and feature delivery
• Provide and seek out direct feedback from feature team members for continuous growth and effectiveness of the overall team

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
• 5+ years of experience in developing applications on the Java platform (Spring Boot, REST Web Services)
• 2+ years of experience with cloud-based technologies such as Azure
• 3+ years of experience working with MySQL or similar databases, including writing complex join queries and SQL query tuning
• 3+ years of experience in applying object-oriented principles and recommended design patterns to create robust and scalable system designs
• 3+ years of experience in resolving technical issues through debugging
• 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and containerization
• 2+ years of experience with microservice architecture
• 2+ years of JMS messaging experience using platforms like MQ or Kafka streaming
• 2+ years of experience in development processes and tools (Sonar, GitHub, CI/CD)
• 2+ years of experience in secure software development and operations
• 2+ years of experience with Junit or other test frameworks
• 1+ years of experience working in teams following Agile development methodologies

Preferred Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree (or higher)
• Experience with Linux or UNIX platforms
• Ability to define and drive improvements in overall quality, including automation and code coverage
• Ability to set team coding standards and practices
• Experience in creating technical design documents
• Strong preference for experience in test automation frameworks and application security principles

Soft Skills:

• Proactive in identifying and escalating potential risks and impediments, and coming up with alternative solutions
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and troubleshooting abilities
• Effective communication skills with other engineers and stakeholders

*All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

 

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. 

 

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. 

  

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants. 

 

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.

 

 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

 

UnitedHealth Group is a drug – free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

 

 

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