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. 

 

Self-Organizing and Cross Functional development team and is able to convert sprint backlog items to shippable product. He/she collectively owns end to end development responsibility for a given Agile Team/ POD. He/she will design, code, test, deploy & support the user stories committed for a sprint. Works independently under limited supervision. Possess skills to effectively deal with issues, challenges within field of specialization to develop application solutions. 
 
Primary Responsibilities: 

Lead product teams of software engineers in the successful development and delivery of high-quality,        scalable health care solutions. 

Technically hands on and excellent in Design, Coding, Automation Testing.  

Experience developing Microservices in Java using Spring Boot framework 

Experience in designing and developing database-driven applications using SQL & No-SQL 

Collectively responsible for end-to-end product quality. 

Participates and contributes in Sprint Ceremonies. 

Promote and develop the culture of collaboration, accountability & quality.   

To approach all new strategies and assignments with a positive attitude. 

Provides technical support to team and helps team in resolving technical issues. 

Design and develop software applications and application components in an agile environment. 

Integrate and implement custom created applications with commercial and open-source software. 

Create high-quality software by conducting peer design/code reviews and developing automated test        cases. 

Extensive customer exposure, interaction and highly adaptable to new technologies/tools. 

Work with geographically distributed teams, with ample opportunity to learn from and mentor teammates in a fast-paced environment. 

Play a key role in the future of software products by working closely with product management and other stakeholders to aid solution development. 

Leverage the latest technologies to solve complex problems facing the health care industry. 

Ability to work collaboratively in a global team with a positive team spirit. 

Builds strong commitment within the team to support the appropriate team priorities. 

Stays current with new and evolving tech stacks via formal training and self-directed education. 

Ensure all code adheres to development & security standards. 

Drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build, deployment, and operations. 

 

10 - 15 Years of experience - Working on multiple layers of technology. 

Primary Technical Skills: 

AWS Cloud: 6+ Years of working Experience of cloud platform (AWS) and leveraging managed services on the cloud. 

API/Micro Services: Strong understanding and development experience on Java, Spring Boot, RESTful Web Services and Microservices architecture and implementation approaches. 

Software development experience in Java & J2EE. 

Java full stack engineer, Microservice development, Spring boot, REST API, Design Patterns, AWS Cloud Experience. 

One streaming experience either Kafka OR anything. 

Terraform experience to write the code for AWS cloud resource manage. 

DevOps:  

Working experience in CI/CD pipeline (test, build, deployment, and monitoring automation). Gradle, Jenkins, GitHub, Docker. 

Knowledge of build tools such as Jenkins. 

Use of Java IDE (IntelliJ/Eclipse) with debugger experience. 

Understanding and implementation of test/business driven development using any Java Unit testing framework. 

Experience load testing and performance tuning. 

Strong analytical, interpersonal, problem solving and reasoning skills. 

Experience in troubleshooting performance issues in distributed systems. 

Experience with profiling and tracing tools like AppDynamics, New Relic, EAPM, etc. 

Deep hands-on experience on Container technologies. 

Database: Working experience of NoSQL, SQL, RedShift & Elasticsearch database. 

Open Source:  Demonstrate hands on knowledge of Open-Source adoption and use cases.   

Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. 

Development Methodology/Engineering Practices: Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN). 

 

Engineering Practices  

Agile: Must have working experience of 6+ year in “Agile team”. 

Good in Data Structure, Algorithms and Design Patterns.  

Demonstrates excellent problem-solving & analytical skills.  

Understanding and practical implementation of common OO design patterns. 

Experience in code optimization and performance tuning. 

 

Nice to have Skills: 

Experience IAM Domain. 

Amazon Web Service certifications. 

Work experience in product engineering. 

Experience in healthcare industry applications development & support. 

Knowledge of CHAOS engineering. 

 

 

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.