Primary Responsibilities:
- Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews and hands-on design sessions
- Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams' work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
- Continues to receive guidance on own code reviews primarily around solution refinement rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
- Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
- Solves more complex problems. APIs/Data Structures/ Algorithms/Application sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable, and performant
- Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
- Leaves code in a better state than they found it
- In alignment with sprint and program goals, choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt
- Incorporates automation in test, build, and deploy processes to drive team efficiency
- Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes
- Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alerting into the definition of done
- Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket resolution
- Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components
- Understands most common security threats and patterns at both the application layer and infrastructure layers and delivers solutions devoid of them
- Works with Product Management to ensure Stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
- Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on-time completion
- Helps to unblock the team when there a blockages
- Limits work in progress by shipping features/deploying software often
- Decomposes Features into manageable stories/tasks
- Considers the User Experience, business impact, and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
- Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
- Understands business/financial impact of stability and resiliency
- Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements
- 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:
- 4+ years of software development experience
- 3+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
- 2+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
- 3+ years of experience in Java Programming (Solid Java Knowledge)
- 2+ years of experience ensuring code builds and deployments are properly processed through Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment processes built in Jenkins.
- 2+ years of experience with building microservices.
- 1+ years of working with modern Front-End technologies like React or Angular 2+
- 2+ years of experience or exposure to cloud technologies such as OpenShift, AWS, Azure...
- 1+ years of experience with Kafka Streaming
- 6+ months experience with building AI Agents/Agentic Workflows
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with logging/monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic
- Degree in computer science or equivalent
- Healthcare domain knowledge
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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