Lead Full Stack 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.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps. 

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways. Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Development of Web applications using latest full stack skills on JAVA Full Stack (Java, Angular, REST, XML, HTML, AJAX, CSS, etc.) and AI knowledge
• Implementing best engineering practices on CI/CD and automated code reviews
• Knowledge on Azure Cloud and Kubernetes

• Drive technical quality and delivery for a scrum team

   

• Reviews and challenges requirements, wireframes, features etc from point of view of business, user or customer, and suggests meaningful changes resulting into better functional design
• Influences team on design, priorities and approach for design and feature/functional areas level
• Component libraries, services, workflows, integration and/or data transformations
• Independently evaluates candidate design options, can compare, contrast the pros & cons before taking design decisions
• Ability to independently code end to end vertical slice functional flow (e.g. UI, Middle ware, Persistence) of user stories that are of large size and complexity
• Writes effective unit test cases and functional test cases, writes and executes the automation of functional test cases
• Feature and component level technical problems e.g
• Writing highly optimized, resource-light and code that scales in linear fashion for large scale data processing or high transaction volumes
• Translating real world business objects into Object models   
• Writing reusable set of component libraries that are extensible, with plug-n-play characteristics
• Doing effective RCAs for functional, data, performance or scale related issues in production
• Provide structured resolution fast enough ensuring lower down times, high availability of business-critical products & services
• Advanced Configurations like Security (OAuth2.0 and JWT), Jenkins, Docker, Sonar, Fortify, Azure, etc.
• 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 regard 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:

10+ years experience on full stack Java and Angular based development
Good hands-on experience on MVC .NET, SOA based applications, applications with high configurability
Solid object-oriented programming skills
Experience on Cloud computing technologies and AI

Good hands-on on API Development leveraging Open API standards
Strong analytical skills and experience on proof of concept development
Good on design and application architecture principles
Preferred UI Development skills (Angular/React/HTML/CSS/Bootstrap etc.)
Good Team player, change/innovation agents and self-starter on different techs
Ready to take up any technical challenges and should be research oriented
Preferred Qualifications:

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.