Software Engineer

At Optum, you’ll have the clinical resources, data and support of a global organization behind you so you can help your patients live healthier lives. We believe you deserve an exceptional career, and will empower you to live your best life at work and at home. Experience the fulfillment of advancing the health of your community with the excitement of contributing new practice ideas and initiatives that could help improve care for millions of patients across the country. Because together, we have the power to make health care better for everyone. Join us and discover how rewarding medicine can be while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Engage in the full software development lifecycle, with a solid focus on coding, testing, and debugging
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices
• Collaborate closely with team members to design, develop, and deploy new features
• Optimize and enhance the performance of existing software applications
• Communicate effectively and regularly with management and technical support teams
• Actively participate in agile methodologies, including Scrum or LeSS frameworks
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• Support security initiatives and implement necessary vulnerability fixes
• Participate in Scrum meeting, design reviews, test case reviews, and production support readiness reviews for new releases, provide inputs for go/no go decision
• Adhere to the terms of the employment contract, company policies, and procedures
• Be flexible and responsive to organizational changes, including but not limited to:
  • Transfers or reassignments to different teams or locations
  • Adjustments in work shifts or schedules
  • Modifications to work benefits or environments
  • Implementation of alternative work arrangements
• 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:

• B.Tech./MCA (16+ years of formal education)
• 2+ years of proven experience as a Software Engineer or in a similar technical role
• Hands-on experience as a Full Stack Engineer (FSE) with a solid understanding of Microservices Architecture
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Docker, Kubernetes/NoMad, and Jenkins
• Proficient in Angular, Java, Spring/Spring Boot, Hibernate, Git, RESTful APIs, Splunk, and MySQL
• Proven solid grasp of core design principles for building scalable and maintainable applications
• Demonstrated solid analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities
• Demonstrated ability to support QA, UAT and release phases of the project via defect analysis, change maintenance
• Proven to be an effective team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven fast learner with a passion for exploring new programming languages and emerging technologies

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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