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:

• Design, implement and maintain Java application within all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Develop, test, implement and maintain application software working with established processes
• Communicate effectively with other engineers and QA
• Establish, refine and integrate development and test environment tools and software as needed
• Identify production and non-production application issues
• Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications of Java developed projects
• Provide technical support and consultation for Java application and infrastructure questions Serve as a mentor to less experienced Developers
• Be able to envision the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and be able to define technologies, patterns and frameworks to materialize it
• Design and develop the framework of the system and be able to explain choices made. Also write and review design document explaining overall architecture, framework and high level design of the application
• Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module or task, and be able to justify it
• Be able to define in-scope, out-of-scope and taken assumptions while creating effort estimates
• Be able to identify and integrate well over all integration points in context of a project as well as other applications in the environment
• Coding
  • Positions in this function deliver professional level technical work in support of the development of company products, tools, platforms and services, typically for an external customer or end user. Operates within established methodologies, procedures, and guidelines. Applies knowledge of principles and techniques to solve technical problems. Works closely with other functions to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps
    • Define guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
    • Do required POCs to make sure that suggested design or technologies meet the requirements
    • Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed
    • Works with less structured, more complex issues
    • Serves as a resource to others
• 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 or Post Graduate in Computer Science or Engineering or Science or Mathematics or related field with around 3+ years of experience in executing the Java projects
• Cloud Certification, preferably Azure
• Senior Java Technical Position with about 3+ years of hands-on technical experience in the Java related technologies. Working Knowledge of executing the projects in the Agile Methodologies
• Technical skills:
  • Technical experience: Java, J2EE, spring boot, Postgres
  • Hands on experience on building, maintaining, optimizing or modernizing applications on (or to) Public Cloud, preferably Azure, show-casing event driven, elastically scalable, fault tolerant and other cloud native architecture patterns
  • Solid experience in Core Java, Spring, spring boot and Hibernate or Spring Data JPA
  • Experience in SOA based architecture, Web Services (SOAP or REST)
  • Experience in Kafka or Pulsar
  • Experience in continuous integration (Jenkins or Sonar or etc)
  • Hands-on experience on PostgreSQL and Oracle
  • Experience in using profiler tools (JProfiler or JMeter)
  • Good understanding of UML and design patterns
  • Good understanding on Performance tuning

Preferred Qualifications:

• Technical experience: Angular
• Health care industry experience

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.