Senior 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:

• Review, Design, support and maintain highly scalable microservices within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) on Microsoft Azure
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and should be able to clearly articulate the implications of application
• Review architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns etc., against a predefined checklist and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed
• Design and develop proof of concept prototypes for advanced features and designs
• Design, build, and maintain highly reusable Java/J2EE, JavaScript, HTML and CSS code
• Develop and maintain web applications using modern front-end frameworks and libraries such as ReactJS, Angular, NodeJS, Svelte JSor Vue.js
• Collaborate with product owners to implement responsive and visually appealing user interfaces
• Implement user interface functionality using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
• Write high-quality, well-documented code that follows best practices for security, scalability, and maintainability
• Conduct research and deconstruct our users’ digital interactions
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Develop coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
• Writes automated unit tests for developed code through the tools like EasyMock/Mockito/Karma/Jasmine/Karate
• Solid JavaScript fundamentals and its internal processing mechanism
• 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:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience.
• BS/MS Degree in Computer Science or related experience.
• Solid experience on Java/J2EE/ Spring Boot/Spring Reactive/Spring Web Flex
• Experience in developing Web Services (REST, SOAP)
• Good hands-on experience on Database/ORM technologies (Hibernate/JDBC/JPA)
• Experience with automated unit testing technologies (Such as JUnit, Easy Mock, Mockito, Karma/Jasmine Spock, or similar)
• Good hands-on experience using React JS, Node.js, Express JS or Svelte JS. based frameworks
• Experience with Design patterns and software engineering best practices
• Experience with cloud technologies (Azure/AWS)
• Experience in doing software development in an Agile environment
• Hands on experience on CI/CD tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Docker etc.
• Hands on experience on MySQL, Cassandra
• Good hands-on experience on Eclipse/Spring Tools (STS), IntelliJ/Visual Studio Code
• Experience with Test driven development and actively using TDD for development
• Hands on Experience on DevOps tools like Git, Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Rally, SONAR, TwistLock, TestNG, X-RayScan, Micro Soft Defender, CodeQL experience
• Experience in Splunk and Dynatrace
• Experience implementing web performance optimization and measuring technique
• Experience analyzing Google search engine report and providing technical recommendation to improve site ranking
• Good knowledge about various supporting framework/design like Circuit breaker, logging
• Expert knowledge of CSS, CSS extension languages (Less, Sass), and CSS preprocessor tools
• Solid understanding about how browser process and load web pages
• Solid understanding and implementation details about API asynchronous programming
• Solid understanding about HTTP protocol and browser-based storage capabilities
• Solid understanding about web Server, Application Server, and Cloud environment
• Understanding of design strategies for effectively leveraging Caching
• Understand the limitations of our tech stack and business model and provide technical advice wherever necessary

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with commercial software development and/or healthcare industry experience
• Solid experience in projects requiring application re-engineering, modernization
• Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)
• Google Lighthouse
• Elastic Search

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.