Senior Software Engineer II- JAVA+React/Node

Caring. Connecting. Growing together

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions. We're Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving UnitedHealth Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through UnitedHealthcare & Optum.

We are seeking a dynamic individual who embodies modern engineering culture - someone with deep engineering expertise within a digital product model, a passion for innovation, and a relentless drive to enhance the consumer experience. Our ideal candidate thrives in an agile, fast-paced rapid-prototyping environment, embraces DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, and champions the Voice of the Customer. If you are driven by the pursuit of excellence, eager to innovate, and excited to make a tangible impact within a team that embraces modern technologies and consumer-centric strategies, while prioritizing robust cyber-security protocols, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us. Join our team and be at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare, where your unique skills will not only be recognized but celebrated.

Software Engineering Manager having ability to build robust and high-quality design for the prescribed capability and program. Who can think and take our journey of innovations to next level which will deliver a rich, engaging and unmatched customer experience. In this role, you will ensure flawless cutting-edge experiences.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
• Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
• Provide operational support and engineering for large distributed software applications
• Estimate: Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
• Mentor: Coach high performing engineering team to build and deliver health care product to market
• Operations: Possess/acquire solid troubleshooting skills and be interested in performing troubleshooting of issues in different desperate technologies and environments
• Thought Leadership: Propose and implement best in class architectural solution for big and complex systems
• Engineering: Implement and adhere to best engineering practices like design, unit testing, functional testing automation, continues integration and delivery
• Stakeholder management: Excellent communication skills, clarity of thought and ability to take decisions bases on available information
• 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:

• Education:B.Tech/MCA/MSc/MTech(Minimum 16 years of formal education correspondence courses are not considered relevant).
• Experience:
• 10+ years of relevant software lifecycle experience, with a focus on Backend Services, APIs, Microservices, and Frontend implementation.
• 3+ years of experience in working with and guiding team members on Java and UI.
• Technical Skills:
• Extensive experience with REST, GraphQL, Microservices, and Spring Boot on AWS Cloud.
• Hands-on experience with React/Node.js and other UI frameworks.
• Exposure to Cassandra or other No-SQL databases.
• Familiarity with AWS services, Lambda, and containerization.
• Experience with Kubernetes and automated, codeable deployments.
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle.
• Proficiency in Design, Coding, and Testing.

Product/Project/Program Related Tech Stack:

• Front End: Java, React/Node.js
• Back End: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST, AWS, GraphQL
• Middleware: Kafka & its ecosystem, Cassandra/NoSQL
• Testing: JUnit, Gatling, Cypress, Selenium
• DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Sonar, Fortify
• Others: JMeter, Groovy
• Development Methodology/Engineering Practices: Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN)

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.