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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

Perform all phases of software engineering including; requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing   Design and implement performance and operational enhancements   Design & Develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity   Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvement  Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines   Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software release  Work with a team of software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project   Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and design solutions as required   Design, code, test, debug, and document software, whilst enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business requirements   Work very closely with architecture groups to drive software solutions   Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership   Collaborate on design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the scrum team , including Mentoring  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:

Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience  Experience working with Docker or Kubernetes. Experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka or similar messaging technologies  Experience with cloud services; either AWS or Azure  Experience with Javascript, Typescript, HTML  Experience with Node  Experience with CSS  Experience with React Frameworks including Abyss (If internal UHG Candidate) or other React frameworks (Kendo)  Experience in supporting and maintaining web applications in an Enterprise environment in a complex ecosystem  Experience with Web Security and Addressing of Vulnerabilities  Experience building modular, testable, and reusable software   Experience integrating with internal and external RESTful services   Experience with DevOps toolsets such as Jenkins, Terraform, etc.  Mobile-first Design knowledge  Knowledge of Authorization, OAuth, API Integration  Software development methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban  

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with React Native  Experience with Mobile Development  Proven programming skills in C# 

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.