Software Engineer

Optum is a global organisation 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. 

About the role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.
Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life’s best work.
The Software Engineer will have passion for clean code, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects as well as an unrelenting drive to learn and deliver. Qualified candidates will be required to demonstrate the full stack hands on knowledge for this position.

Working Schedule:

This is a full-time position with standard working hours of Monday – Friday, standard business hours.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

•    Design and implement new features on OLS (Optum Life Science) products built by the OPEN team.
•    Deliver and integrate features with the upstream dependencies.
•    Work alongside the Product team to design and build new features.
•    DevOps mindset in terms of ownership of new features from planning through to release in production.
•    Operate as a member of an Engineering value stream team.

You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

•    Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent experience
•    Practical experience of delivering high quality production software in Java with usage of SQL against any datastore
•    Experience with REST APIs, Java, Spring, Microservices specifically Spring Boot, Data Stores, Containers
•    Experience of operating in an Agile value stream Team and driving value via technological deliveries to meet business requirements.
•    Good understanding of Microservices architecture with hands on experience of Spring Boot
•    Foundational knowledge of a Cloud Provider Ecosystem (Azure/AWS/GCP).
•    Experience in using modern software engineering tooling (Jenkins, GHA, Sonar, Twist-Lock or alternatives etc.) and process in terms of Agile delivery in a CI/CD work environment.

Preferred Qualification:

•    Some knowledge of UI development specifically Typescript/JavaScript OR a willingness to embrace and grow your knowledge in UI development to grow and support our UI Engineers.
•    Experience with various software design patterns
•    Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
•    Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
•    Some Knowledge of IaC(Terraform) 
•    Some Knowledge of CI/CD workflows e.g. GitHub Actions

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2024 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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