Senior Software Engineer Lead .Net

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:

• Design and develop software applications and application components in an agile environment using .NET Core and Angular
• Create high-quality software by conducting peer design/code reviews and developing automated test cases
• Software architecture and design using established design patterns such as Vertical Slice Architecture, Clean Architecture, and GoF design patterns
• Creates and updates SQL stored procedures
• Read, analyze, and refactor code to a more efficient or maintainable solution
• Act as a hands-on engineer, leading by example and working independently
• Builds production-ready features and capabilities adhering to best engineering standards
• Share knowledge internally with peers and leaders, acting as a resource for teams and business units within areas of expertise
• Guide and mentor junior engineers within the organization
• Analyzes and investigates production issues as they arise
• 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:

• 8+ years of software development experience, with at least 6 years focused on .NET web related technologies
• 3+ years of experience in API & Integrations: Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs
• 2+ years of DevOps & CI/CD: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory, Fortify Scan, SonarQube)
• 2+ years of development with Elasticsearch or like search engine
• Experience in building scalable, performant and high-availability applications using ASP.NET Web API, Angular and web services (API backend heavy)
• Experience designing and developing data-driven applications using RDMBS (SQL Server, Oracle, PL/SQL) and/or NoSQL datastores

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in deploying applications on public cloud infrastructure
• Experience in a lead or senior role
• Experience in banking/financial/healthcare domain
• Solid background in designing RESTful APIs, microservices architecture, and service-oriented architecture
• Expertise in optimizing high-traffic, real-time payment processing systems for latency and throughput
• Flexibility to work across a variety of software-related disciplines: solution design, agile development, unit testing and refactoring

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.