Software Engineer

Combine two of the fastest-growing fields on the planet with a culture of performance, collaboration, and opportunity and this is what you get. Leading edge technology in an industry that's improving the lives of millions. Here, innovation isn't about another gadget, it's about making health care data available wherever and whenever people need it, safely and reliably. There's no room for error. Join us and start doing your life's best work.(sm)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Actively contribute to delivery in a cross-functional team of software engineers, quality engineers, and systems analysts in DevOps delivery of a software platform

• Collaborate with Business and Product Engineering teams to design robust and reusable solutions, as well as facilitate the translation to technical designs

• Collaborate and influence proactive system monitoring practices and strategies to help identify issues prior to customer impact

• Troubleshoot and support the full-cycle incident response (mitigation, correction, prevention) to achieve timely resolution of all production issues meeting or exceeding Service Level Agreements

• Promote a mindset and culture within the team that embraces identifying, owning, and solving issues, driving quality, improving performance, and improving the customer experience

• Adhere to development standards, security policies and procedures to safeguard data

•  Estimate delivery effort, as well as effectively identify and prioritize high-value deliverables

•  Assist in story definition, evaluation, translation, and business requirements gathering from product owners and business stakeholders

• Communicate effectively to drive efficient team delivery

• Collaborate in continuous planning to ensure a successful delivery plan is available for business priorities

• Mentor software engineers and lead software engineering code quality and best practices (e.g., test best practices, design patterns, code smells, etc.)

What are the reasons to consider working for UnitedHealth Group?   Put it all together - competitive base pay, a full and comprehensive benefit program, performance rewards, and a management team who demonstrates their commitment to your success. Some of our offerings include:

• Paid Time Off which you start to accrue with your first pay period plus 8 Paid Holidays
• Medical Plan options along with participation in a Health Spending Account or a Health Saving account
• Dental, Vision, Life& AD&D Insurance along with Short-term disability and Long-Term Disability coverage
• 401(k) Savings Plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Education Reimbursement
• Employee Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Bonus Program
• Voluntary Benefits (pet insurance, legal insurance, LTC Insurance, etc.)
• More information can be downloaded at: http://uhg.hr/uhgbenefits

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or closely related technical discipline
• 2+ years in Java
• 1+ years unit testing, integration testing, and UI testing frameworks and methodologies (e.g., Spock, Jasmine, Jest, etc.) as part of software testing automation
• 1+ years in application persistence layers and related design choices (e.g., SQL, NoSQL, etc.)
• 1+ years using Git source control
• 1+ years working with RESTful services
• Full COVID-19 vaccination is an essential job function of this role. Candidates located in states that mandate COVID-19 booster doses must also comply with those state requirements. UnitedHealth Group will adhere to all federal, state and local regulations as well as all client requirements and will obtain necessary proof of vaccination, and boosters when applicable, prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience and In-depth knowledge of Azure Cloud platform
• Knowledge of Angular is a plus
• 1+ years of experience with Kafka
• 1+ years prior working experience in a DevOps, or SRE role
• 1+ years of experience with CI/CD, Jenkins, Maven, Github
• 1+ years of experience with containers and container-related technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift
• 1+ years of experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
• Experience performing root cause analysis for production Issues
• Healthcare Industry experience strongly preferred

To protect the health and safety of our workforce, patients and communities we serve, UnitedHealth Group and its affiliate companies require all employees to disclose COVID-19 vaccination status prior to beginning employment. In addition, some roles and locations require full COVID-19 vaccination, including boosters, as an essential job function. UnitedHealth Group adheres to all federal, state and local COVID-19 vaccination regulations as well as all client COVID-19 vaccination requirements and will obtain the necessary information from candidates prior to employment to ensure compliance. Candidates must be able to perform all essential job functions with or without reasonable accommodation. Failure to meet the vaccination requirement may result in rescission of an employment offer or termination of employment

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work. (sm)

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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