Senior Software Engineer II

Requisition Number: 2366689
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.
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.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and enterprise architecture team to understand requirements and design/develop end to end solution
• Partner closely with global teams to implement the design
• Develop, and maintain high performance reusable code for healthcare applications and components including browser-based single page apps, micro frontends, microservices and orchestrated workflow
• Participate in all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing and follow Agile / Scrum/Less methodology to deliver high - quality software releases every 2 weeks & influence teams towards engineering best practices such as DevOps / CICD / Everything as a code
• Applying object - oriented principles and recommended design patterns to create robust and scalable system designs
• Define and drive improvements in the overall quality including automation, code coverage and inspection processes
• Develop unit and integration tests for all written software programs and components. Follow test driven development approach
• Document and communicate design and application code specifications and details to other team members
• Adapt to new programming languages, methodologies, platforms and frameworks to support the business needs
• Builder Responsibilities:
  • Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows, and decision-making
• 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:

• Bachelor's or equivalent Degree with 8-12 Years of IT experience
• Proficient/Solid work hands and design experience of following Tech Stack
  • Github Copilot, Codex etc.
  • Java/J2EE
  • React, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS
  • Spring (Core/Boot/Cloud), Hibernate, JPA
  • Rest API, Microservices
  • Opensource/NoSQL Database
  • GraphQL, Hasura, PostgreSQL
  • Cypress, Cucumber, Selenium, Scala
  • Junit, Sonar, Fortify, Splunk
  • GitHub, Jenkins, XL Deploy/Release, Artifactory, Docker
  • Design Patterns, DevOps Processes
  • Agile Scrum/Kanban/Less Methodology

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.
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