The Role
Lead software engineer responsible for delivering and triaging code, supporting production and non-production incidents, implementing requirements within a scrum team, ensuring application availability, performing integration/regression/performance testing, deploying to test/production, and liaising between business and technical teams. Supports CI/CD, DevOps practices, API and microservices architecture, and participates in weekend support rotation.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2360762
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:
Preferred Qualifications:
Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and 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.
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:
- Working on new code delivery and triaging tickets, working with consuming applications and data provider for software defects that scrum team is not able to resolve
- Be able to be flexible and work in a dynamic environment with daily code deployments and changes in priorities from Product Team
- Working as part of scrum team to understand, analyze, and implement requirements into functional artifacts
- Provide production and non-production support for incident tickets
- Support application availability, reliability, and stability
- Conduct System Integreation, Regression and performance testing, deploy code to test and production environments, and support and triage of testing for releases
- Act as the liaison between Business, Developers and Scrum teams on requirements/scope/Change discussions to determine IT scope
- Identify corresponding scope for all Technical Teams for the change considering opportunities for consolidation, enhancement, and retirement of related software/features
- Analyze and work to resolve the Defects reported by business by engaging appropriate teams
- Adherence to Agile/Rally methodology, ServiceNow Process and Maintenance of related technical team documents
- Provide weekend production support for high impact issues on a rotation basis with other team members
- Adopt AI in day to day activities
- 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:
- BS / BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD Pipeline using Git Actions
- 2+ years of experience with PowerShell
- 2+ years of experience with Java
- Solid experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirement
- Experience in using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile / SAFE, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
- Experience with REST/ JSON SOAP APIs, Java 8 or higher, Spring Boot, CLT, Git, Microservices, Docker
- Experience in any public Cloud, Machine Learning/Artificial
- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro -services architecture
- Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization
- Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cloud Certified
- AI/ML Certified
- Practical experience of developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
- Experience with Graph QL, Java 11, Springboot
- Experience on Databases, SQL programming, No SQL DBs (e.g. Cassandra, ElasticSearch, MongoDB)
- Experience on building Streaming Solutions using Kafka
- Experience with Automation Frameworks, such as Selenium WebDriver, Restassured, SOAP UI, Spock
- Experience in Kotlin, nodeJS, Avro schema, golang, prometheous, grafana, Kubernetes, ELK stack
- Experience on implementing Automation (Unit/Functional/Regression) and Performance tuning techniques using Cucumber/Neoload
- Experience / exposure to API integration frameworks
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Expertise in developing solutions hosting within key major cloud providers such as AWS, Google Cloud and Azure
- Expertise in a Contained based platform, e.g Openshift, Kubernetes, Rancher
- Good understanding of Microservices architecture
- Demonstrated ability to establish repeatable processes, best practices and implement version control software in a Cloud team environment
- Demonstrate being an avid supporter of the Open Source software community
- Demonstrated excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
- Demonstrated solid desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to enhance productivity and innovation by streamlining workflows and automating repetitive tasks. Evaluate emerging trends to drive continuous improvement and 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.
Skills Required
- BS/BA in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- 2+ years experience with CI/CD Pipeline using Git Actions
- 2+ years experience with PowerShell
- 2+ years experience with Java
- Experience operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation
- Experience using modern software engineering and product development tools including Agile/SAFe, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps
- Experience with REST/JSON and SOAP APIs, Java 8 or higher, Spring Boot, CLT, Git, Microservices, Docker
- Experience in any public cloud and exposure to Machine Learning/AI
- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API activities: requirement analysis, architecture and design, resource-based API modeling, microservices architecture
- Proven track record advocating new technology, creating communities, and publishing SDKs/libraries for reuse
- Proven track record of building relationships across cross-functional teams
- Provide production and non-production support for incident tickets and weekend production support on rotation
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues each pay period with eight paid U.S. holidays plus a floating holiday, and generous time away is consistently emphasized. This breadth supports planned and unplanned time off beyond standard vacation days.
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Parental & Family Support — Six weeks of paid parental leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, Bright Horizons back‑up care, and adoption assistance signal strong family-oriented support. EAP access with counseling sessions further extends help to employees and their households.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, Calm app membership, tuition reimbursement, commuter and FSA accounts, and broad employee discounts expand everyday wellbeing resources. Free or low‑cost virtual visits complement these lifestyle supports.
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
Typical time on-site:
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