Optum · 1 day ago
Software Engineer - Remote
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$73K/yr - $130K/yr
5+ years expOptum is a global leader in health care innovation, developing cutting-edge solutions to improve health systems. The Software Engineer will contribute to code reviews, solve complex problems, and collaborate with teams to deliver high-quality software solutions while ensuring alignment with product management and user experience.
EducationHealthcarePharmaceuticalHealth CareMedical
Responsibilities
Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams' work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
Continues to receive guidance on own code reviews primarily around solution refinement rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
Solves more complex problems. APIs/Data Structures/ Algorithms/Application sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable, and performant
Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
Leaves code in a better state than they found it
In alignment with sprint and program goals, choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt
Incorporates automation in test, build, and deploy processes to drive team efficiency
Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes
Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alerting into the definition of done
Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket resolution
Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components
Understands most common security threats and patterns at both the application layer and infrastructure layers and delivers solutions devoid of them
Works with Product Management to ensure Stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on-time completion
Helps to unblock the team when there a blockages
Limits work in progress by shipping features/deploying software often
Decomposes Features into manageable stories/tasks
Considers the User Experience, business impact, and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
Understands business/financial impact of stability and resiliency
Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
5+ years of software development experience
4+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
4+ years of experience in Java Programming (Solid Java Knowledge) and Spring boot
4+ years of experience with MongoDB, Kafka
4+ years of working experience in set up or maintenance of CI or CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
4+ years of experience with building microservices
3+ years of working with modern Front-End technologies like React
3+ years of experience with Splunk, Dynatrace
3+ years of production support experience
3+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
2+ years of experience with AWS, Terraform and EKS
6+ months of experience with building AI Agents/Agentic Workflows
Preferred
Experience building robust, consumer-facing software cloud-native applications
Experience with security reviews
Proven solid communication skills to articulate technical concepts to other engineers and non-technical stakeholders
Proven solid infrastructure as code experience Terraform
Proven solid governance / change management mindset, ideally with experience in data privacy / risk management
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution
Company
Optum
Optum is a healthcare company that provides pharmacy services, health care operations, and population health management. It is a sub-organization of UnitedHealth Group.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Daniel Castillo
Chief Executive Officer, Optum Care Delivery
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Jay Green
Chief Financial Officer
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