Senior Software Engineer - Remote

UnitedHealth Group

  • Colorado Springs, CO
  • $88,000-173,200 per year
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 24 days ago
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 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.Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.
  • Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed
  • Works with less structured, more complex issues
  • Serves as a resource to others
You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.Primary Responsibilities:
  • Senior developer with deep understanding of modern software engineering practices.
  • Solid technical credentials, working in large scale distributed system development including hands on operational experience
  • Solid Individual contributor with hands-on experience on Java, Microservices, Spring boot, Kafka, ReactJs, Database, Kubernetes, GitHub
  • Solid hands-on experience on Cloud environment and architectures, preferably OCI
  • Proven experience with full development life cycle for large-scale software products including extensive Experience with service-oriented architectures, design patterns and web services
  • Experience mentoring/training an engineering community on development best practices
  • Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, distributed architecture, and engineering best practices
  • Leverage knowledge of internal and industry prior knowledge in design decisions
  • Solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, asynchronous architectures and distributed algorithms
  • In-depth knowledge of system programming, Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
  • Understand Product / Project / Consumer priorities and deliver features with in time and budget
  • Understand and implement CI/CD deployment pipelines
You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of experience in an agile environment with design, development, testing, documentation and deployment
  • 5+ years solid programming skills utilizing Java 11 and up
  • 3+ Springboot Microservices, Rest APIs
  • Hands on experience in creating design flows, active engagement in team discussions
  • Experience developing best practices adhering to engineering principles by writing high quality, secure code that is modular, functional and testable
  • Experience supporting production deployment, system maintenance and operations of the applications, respond to incident tickets in a timely manner as well as support on-call team rotation
  • Experience with GitHub PRs, peer designs, code, tests and automations, providing optimization and simplification recommendations
  • Expert in microservice-based development
  • Proven excellent problem solving and debugging skills
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Knowledgeable in Linux Bash, Python scripts
  • Postgres SQL, Oracle SQL
  • GitHub/GitActions, Jenkins
  • Cloud/Container Orchestration - AWS, OCI, Docker, Kubernetes
  • Agile Tools - JIRA, Confluence
  • Knowledge in UI/React
  • Knowledgeable in Healthcare, Financial Technology/Card Platform
*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter PolicyCalifornia, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for this role is $88,000 to $173,200 annually. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.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.Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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