Principal Software Engineer

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:

• Serve as technical lead to 1-2 (scrum) teams
• Provide mentorship to team members
• Provide leadership and decision making on behalf of the team
• Provide representation of the team to other internal teams
• Drive business priorities
• Drive technical priorities
• Responsible for delivery of secure and resilient solutions
• Provide application ownership
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of experience in Java and the Spring framework
• 8+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like Github Actions and Jenkins
• 8+ years of experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Elastic APM, Grafana, and Prometheus, along with good experience in building dashboards for Splunk and Grafana and creating alerts
• 8+ years of experience working with microservices hosted on cloud platforms such as Kubernetes and Azure public cloud, and
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka or any other messaging tool
• Additionally, candidates should have the ability to develop back-end Java microservices from the ground up, capable of processing millions of transactions per hour, and possess solid SQL experience with PostgreSQL
• A basic understanding of the healthcare business and a good understanding of Agile methodologies are also essential.
• Leadership and mentoring skills
• Team collaboration abilities
• The technical lead will be responsible for overseeing the development team and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality microservices