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



Primary Responsibilities:


• Designing, building and operating secure cloud platform services and software that meet business requirements
• Proven experience with full development life cycle for large-scale software products including extensive experience with service-oriented architectures, design patterns and web services
• In-depth knowledge of system programming, Deep understanding of system performance tradeoffs, load balancing, and engineering for high availability
• Understand Product / Project / Consumer priorities and follow Agile methodologies to deliver features within time
• Creation/involvement in documented designs following agreed to design patterns and standards
• Perform Coding and unit testing independently and assist/mentor his team members whenever required
• Adherence to coding standards
• Communicate effectively with other engineers/ QE and onshore team
• Support the QE team during testing via defect fixes, code deployment, clarifications
• Fully encourage and facilitate high quality code through of support QE team efforts including but not limited to mentoring, assistance, and writing/executing automation tests as needed
• 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:


• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in large scale distributed system development including hands on operational experience
• 5+ hands on experience with Java, Spring boot, Kafka, AngularJS/ReactJS, NoSQL Database, Redis, Docker/Kubernetes, GitHub
• 3+ Experience working with Microservices and Event driven architecture like Kafka
• 2+ experience on Cloud environment and architectures, preferably Azure
• 2+ years of engineering experience in building infrastructure using code (Terraform) and repeatable designs
• 2+ years of experience in automation of CI/CD using GitHub actions or JPAC and source control system such as Git
• 2+ years of experience with Agile/lean development practice
• Experience mentoring/training an engineering community on development best practices


•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.•