Manager Software Engineering - API Node JS

Caring. Connecting. Growing Together.

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.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews and hands-on design sessions
• 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 or Data Structures or Algorithms or 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 are blockages
• Limits work in progress by shipping features or deploying software often
• Decomposes Features into manageable stories or 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 or financial impact of stability and resiliency
• Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements
• Manages and is accountable for professional employees and/or supervisors
• Impact of work is most often at the local level
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of software development experience
• 6+ years of experience in NodeJs, GraphQL, Kafka Programming (Solid NodeJs Knowledge)
• 5+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
• 5+ years of experience ensuring code builds and deployments are properly processed through Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment processes.
• 5+ years of experience with microservice development
• 3+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
• 3+ years of experience or exposure to cloud technologies such as OpenShift, AWS, Kubernetes, Dockers, Github Actions, Terraform
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka Streaming
• 3+ years of experience with logging or monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, Grafana

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in computer science or equivalent
• Experience in building AI Agents or Agentic Workflow, GitHub Copilot, Understanding of LLM's and GenAI.
• AWS Cloud experience
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Digital or Consumer focused application development