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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and deploy innovative AI solutions to various business problems to enhance Organization chatbot capabilities and solutions
• As a Software Engineer, you will be accountable for implementing software solutions on a 4-6 person scrum team
• You will act as an individual contributor while providing influence over your scrum team
• You will interface with Lead SWEs, Managers and Peers to understand priorities and technical strategy
• Use best practices and experience to design, code, build, and test software solutions
• Providing accurate and timely estimates for tasks. Provide support and leadership in critical production support issue resolution
• Support the team for application availability, reliability and stability on a 7 by 24 by 365 basis. Conduct or facilitate root cause analysis on all in-scope incidents and recommend a corrective action plan
• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Code quality will be one of your core areas of focus – ensuring your team’s user stories are effectively tested, peer reviewed and well documented. Mentor other developers on coding standards, problem solving, and application architecture
• On-call in rotation (once in 3 months), including weekends
• Regular shift, but few weeks, as per need, may have to work in Later shift (2:30pm to 12am)
• Exploring new technologies & conducting POC’s
• 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

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:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or engineering with a focus on AI
• 3+ years of full stack development:
  • Any UI/Presentation Layer tech stack (Angular, or React or Java Script or Type Script or any other programming Language)
  • Middle Tier/Service Layer (Java, Sprint Boot, REST API, API implementation, Integration)
  • Any one Relational Databases – Oracle, DB2, SQL, PostgreSQL etc.,
  • Any one non Relational/NoSQL Databases – MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, etc.
• Proven solid organizational skills and focus on accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven excellent analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting abilities
• Proven self-motivated with the ability to work both independently and in a team environment

Preferred Qualifications:

• You have experience working in AI-driven stacks, and/or a demonstrated interest in data science, artificial intelligence, and machine learning
• Any public cloud experience
• Experience on Monitoring, Observation using different tools – Splunk, DataDog, Elastic APM, etc.,
• Knowledge on CI/CD

#LETSGROWAt 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.