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 and implement back-end systems on AWS that enables modern Web applications to derive information from patient data in a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective manner
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code
• Advocate for product quality, including agile SCRUM methodologies, unit tests, code reviews and writing and reviewing engineering design specifications
• 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 regard 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:

• BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 6+ years of hands-on software engineering design and programming experience
• 3+ years hands on experience with Python programming
• Extensive experience in Agile and Scrum. You know how to work within teams against a backlog, and how to enable true CI/CD. You understand the role of a Software Engineer in an Agile environment – where clarifying the solution approach, possessing deep understanding of product requirements and always watching for edge cases are paramount
• Master the fundamentals of technologies such as HTTP protocols, REST API, Security Fundamentals: Encryption, Hashing, Web Security Development, Authentication and Authorization
• Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Knowledge spans the full stack, from deployment ops and database technologies through to front-end frameworks. Ideally, you have a deep understanding of both OOP and Functional stacks, Relational and NoSQL Data Stores, Streaming Applications and system development/maintenance in a cloud platform such as AWS, gcp or Azure. (AWS a bonus!)
• Basic understanding of front-end development with React
• Understand performance issues and how to optimize database queries and caching methodologies
• Ability to debug complex software and system issues
• Improve team engineering excellence by leading clear documentation, troubleshooting, logging and applying engineering best practices.
• Quality mindset with unit and integration test

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger specifications
• Deployment experience: GitHub actions, Terraform, Docker, etc.
• AWS experience such as RDS, ALB, Redis Cache, Secret Manager, EC2, IAM

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.