The Software Engineering Lead will design, code, test, and ensure application quality and performance while collaborating across teams and enhancing productivity with AI tools.
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Performing design, coding, unit testing and ensuring conformance to the team s development process and standards
- Review of requirements and/or systems analysis documents for completeness
- Working with the Deployment Lead, peer developers to complete various project deployment activities
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
- Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Utilize AI tools such as GitHub Copilot to enhance productivity and efficiency across the team
- 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:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 6+ years of overall software engineering experience
- Experience deploying and operating code in a major cloud provider (AWS, Azure, OCI, Google Cloud)
- Experience in financial technology domain
- Experience with high volume transaction sites
- Experience working with applications deployed in private or public cloud
- Experience in customer facing products
- Proficient in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Python, Node.js
- Leverage AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvements and strategic innovation
- Proven good oral and written communication Skills
- Proven ability to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to quickly learn new technologies and leverage them to solve business problems strategic innovation
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.
Top Skills
AWS
Azure
Github Copilot
GCP
Java
Node.js
Oci
Python
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