Software Engineering Lead

Software Engineering Role

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.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

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. 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:

• Understand requirements and high level solution given by solution architect and come up with detailed design and guide team during development
• Be the SME for the functional and technical architecture of the microproducts and assist the team with Triage and resolution of critical issues and remove blockers
• Drive automation, Performance improvements , identify continuous improvement opportunities or facilitate and motivate the team to come up with opportunities and identify the gaps
• Design and implement /Enhance RESTful APIs and microproducts using Microservice architecture in SpringBoot/Java/NestJs/Angular etc.
• Participate and contribute to technical discussion, providing feedback on solutions
• Translate complex functional and technical requirements into detailed design
• Coordinate with the team to assist technical guidance, issue resolution, code reviews, and decision-making
• Bring engineering best practices to develop secured, scalable, reliable, and quality applications, and boost productivity
• Improve CI/CD workflows by utilizing ArgoCD, GitHub, and Docker
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, product managers, architects to drive E2E projects
• Identify and manage risks/issues related to deliverables and arrive at mitigation plans to resolve the issues and rsks
• Possess a curiosity to learn and apply new technologies
• Analyzes and investigates
• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree (B.Tech/BE or Equivelant)
• Java FSE with 6+ years of experience in Spring Boot/Java/React Js with hands-on experience in implementing and integrating APIs
• Experience in Backend (Java , Spring boot ,Junit + Mockito ,Maven, HashiCorp vault)
• Experience in Middleware(ReactJs, JS, GraphQL)
• Experience in CICD(GitHub Actions)
• Experience in Infra(HCC K8's,Stargate,GHEC,ServiceNow)
• Experience in CodeQuality(CodeQL, XRAY,SONAR)
• Experience in Monitoring(Splunk,Grafana)
• Experience in Database (Mysql , postgres )
• Proven above skills are needed to execute as Engineering lead. Guide the team on tech model and understanding the overall solution. Liaison between Arch, Product & Tech teams.
• Proven expertise in Kafka, Azure, GCP, OCM platform architecture

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.