Job Description

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.Are you passionate about building enterprise-class solutions using the latest cloud technologies and current development best practices? Are you ready to be a leader in implementing technologies, such as Amazon Web Services, in a DevOps environment? If you like to create new solutions from scratch and follow that solution throughout all phases from design to production to support, we want to talk to you! If you are an independent self-starter, work well within an integrated team, have a solid sense of ownership, and are obsessed by solving customer use cases using best practices and cloud technologies, we want to talk to you!We are looking for Senior Full Stack Software Engineer to work on an exciting project new to Change Healthcare that has both API and UI components. The Senior Full Stack Software Engineer will be an integral team member building on the next generation of a growing healthcare platform. This position requires analytical, design, problem solving skills and experience in building and operating large scale systems. The capacity to absorb new technologies, understand existing enterprise management tools, and the skill to leverage them to the maximum extent is a key component of this position. The ideal candidate will take a pragmatic and iterative approach to building software; have an ability to simplify and get things done with a demonstrated track record of building and delivering software.We support a solid learning and mentoring atmosphere and work in an agile environment with a high degree of cooperation. This is truly a unique opportunity for you to join a solid, close-knit team that is on the cutting edge of healthcare technology focused on making a significant impact on the future of healthcare solutions. We value ability and the person, not checkboxes on a resume. If you want to begin work every day, excited about learning and producing excellent work with a solid team, we are happy to talk to you.Primary Responsibilities:

• Determines methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate activities of other personnel
• Plan, design, test, code and deliver high quality secure production software with completely automated tests suitable for cloud deployment at scale
• Develop automated tests (TDD including unit, integration, smoke, acceptance tests) to achieve test coverage for continuous deployment and near 100% availability. Execute acceptance tests and maintain test artifacts in a shared repository. Add new tests when fixing defects
• Collaborate with Agile Team and Product Owner (PO) to refine user stories and acceptance criteria. Work with PO to confirm that the code and acceptance tests reflect the desired functionality. Work in small deliverable batches. Participate in planning and in committing to team and individual objectives
• Build defined epics and stories into releasable features and functions
• Conduct research, spikes, design, prototyping and other innovation, exploration and learning activities
• Pair programming when appropriate to develop code and associated automated tests
• Participate in continuous improvement of the software itself, teams process, CI/CD, and development environments
• Eliminate distractions, impediments, and wasteful work to optimize flow and velocity
• Minimize technical debt and continuously improve and learn from mistakes, bugs, and refactoring
• Help the team succeed in delivering potentially releasable and production ready software artifacts in every iteration
• Demo progress/new features in every iteration
• Execute software engineering assignments when provided high level business requirements and technical design guidelines from an architect with minimal supervision
• Recognize strengths and limitations of team members, and adapt to leverage and mentor
• Solid promotor and use of software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality
• 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:

• 8+ years of related experience with a Bachelors degree; or 6 years and a Masters degree; or a PhD with 3+ years of experience; or equivalent experience
• Microservice architecture development experience
• Experience providing low-level design using established enterprise standards and technology
• Software development with at least two modern programming languages (C#,dotnet, Go, Python)
• Proficient with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and React
• Understanding of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Proven effective communication and collaboration
• Proven solid curiosity and willingness to learn
• Proven ability to write clear, concise, and reusable code
• Proven ability to breakdown requirements into stories and provide estimates, perform code reviews, raise technical risk and create documentation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud technology experience - AWS preferred
• Experience in Scrum/Agile development methodologies
• Proficient with database technologies, relational or NoSQL
• Proven solid organizational and project management skills
• Proven solid leadership skills with a proven record of influencing others
• Proven ability to work on problems of diverse scope where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors

#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.

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