Senior Software Engineer II - Java, API Security

Software Engineering Opportunity At Optum Technology

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.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions. We're Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving UnitedHealth Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through UnitedHealthcare & Optum.

We are seeking a dynamic individual who embodies modern engineering culture - someone with deep engineering expertise within a digital product model, a passion for innovation, and a relentless drive to enhance the consumer experience. Our ideal candidate thrives in an agile, fast-paced rapid-prototyping environment, embraces DevOps and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices, and champions the Voice of the Customer. If you are driven by the pursuit of excellence, eager to innovate, and excited to make a tangible impact within a team that embraces modern technologies and consumer-centric strategies, while prioritizing robust cyber-security protocols, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us. Join our team and be at the forefront of shaping the future of healthcare, where your unique skills will not only be recognized but celebrated.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. 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. The focus would be to drive the enhanced user experience & provide seamless integration for authentication domain. 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.

Primary Responsibilities

Coordinates, supervises and is accountable for the daily activities of business support, technical or production team to User Experience & interactions to make UHG portal user journeys more seamless

Impact of work is most often at the team 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 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

Graduate degree or equivalent experience

B.E. (Computer Engineering) or equivalent from reputed engineering colleges

7+ years of relevant software lifecycle experience specifically focusing on UI modelling, Frontend implementation & UI guidance

7+ years of hands-on experience of UI modelling, UI development & UI automation

3+ years of working experience in working & guiding team members on UI

Hands-on experience with designing and developing features in a microservice-based architecture

Hands -on experience on React/NodeJs & other UI frameworks

Experience with Kubernetes & automated codeable deployments

Experience in Site Reliability Engineering and DDoS mitigation techniques

Exposure to AWS services, Lambda & containerization

Technically hands-on and excellent in Design, Coding and Testing

Knowledge of build tools such as Maven/Gradle

Knowledge on REST and Spring Boot over any Cloud

Knowledge of SANS Top 20 Critical Security Controls and OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Cassandra/any other No-SQL exposure

Sound fundamentals of Core Java

Product/Project/Program Related Tech Stack:

• Front End: Java, React/NodeJs
• Back End: Java, Spring, Sprint Boot, REST, AWS
• Middleware: Kafka & its ecosystem, Cassandra/NoSQL
• DevOps: Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Sonar, Fortify
• Others: JMeter, Groovy

Proven ability to analyse and design systems and do development, integration and deployment

Preferred Qualifications

AWS Certifications

Experience in healthcare industry applications development and support

Working knowledge of containers and orchestration (Kubernetes)

Good understanding of SCIM2, U2F/UAF/FIDO2, HOTP, TOTP JavaScript and Single Page Applications

Testing: Gatling , Cypress, Selenium/Playwright

Development Methodology/Engineering Practices Agile (SCRUM/KANBAN)