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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Serve as a technical lead on our most demanding, cross-functional projects
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Fully and completely understand system inter dependencies and limitations
• Identify, prioritize and execute tasks using the agile development methodology
• Be able to understand Product / Project / Consumer priorities and deliver features with in time and budget
• Be able to understand and implement CI/CD deployment pipelines
• Explore new technologies and perform POC to propose solutions to the business problems
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
• 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 in Computer Science or related field
• Solid technical credentials, with 15+ years of technical engineering leadership, with 5+ years of experience in large scale distributed system development including hands on operational experience
• Proven solid Individual contributor with hands-on experience on Java/J2EE, Microservices, Spring boot, Kafka, Elastic Search, Cassandra, Kibana, Redis, Kubernetes, GitHub
• Solid hands-on experience on Cloud environment and architectures, preferably AWS
• Proven experience with full development life cycle for large-scale software products including extensive experience with service-oriented architectures, design patterns and web services
• Experience mentoring/training an engineering community on development best practices
• Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms
• In-depth knowledge of system programming, Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior knowledge in design decisions
• Proven excellent leadership, verbal and written communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters or PhD in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related fields
• Knowledge on machine learning, natural language processing, data mining, predictive analysis, Big Data analytics
• Knowledge on Python, Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus
• Knowledge on Angular, Spark, AWS Athena, AWS Lambda
• Knowledge on MDM is preferable

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.