Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and implement back-end systems on AWS that enables modern Web applications to derive information from patient data in a scalable, reliable, and cost-effective manner
- Ensure the delivery of high-quality, maintainable, and efficient code
- Advocate for product quality, including agile SCRUM methodologies, unit tests, code reviews and writing and reviewing engineering design specifications
- 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:
- BS Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 6+ years of hands-on software engineering design and programming experience
- 3+ years hands on experience with Python programming
- Extensive experience in Agile and Scrum. You know how to work within teams against a backlog, and how to enable true CI/CD. You understand the role of a Software Engineer in an Agile environment - where clarifying the solution approach, possessing deep understanding of product requirements and always watching for edge cases are paramount
- Master the fundamentals of technologies such as HTTP protocols, REST API, Security Fundamentals: Encryption, Hashing, Web Security Development, Authentication and Authorization
- Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Knowledge spans the full stack, from deployment ops and database technologies through to front-end frameworks. Ideally, you have a deep understanding of both OOP and Functional stacks, Relational and NoSQL Data Stores, Streaming Applications and system development/maintenance in a cloud platform such as AWS, gcp or Azure. (AWS a bonus!)
- Basic understanding of front-end development with React
- Understand performance issues and how to optimize database queries and caching methodologies
- Ability to debug complex software and system issues
- Improve team engineering excellence by leading clear documentation, troubleshooting, logging and applying engineering best practices.
- Quality mindset with unit and integration test
Preferred Qualifications:
- Familiarity with OpenAPI / Swagger specifications
- Deployment experience: GitHub actions, Terraform, Docker, etc.
- AWS experience such as RDS, ALB, Redis Cache, Secret Manager, EC2, IAM
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.
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We’re the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our global technology team consists of more than 30,000 innovators from around the world passionate about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care system through modern analytics, comprehensive clinical expertise, innovative technologies and extensive experience in improving operational and clinical performance.
As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.
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