Senior Software Engineer

Optum is a global organisation 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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.
Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale.
Join us to start Caring.
Connecting.
Growing together.
About the Role:
In healthcare, evolution doesn't just happen.
It takes innovation, imagination, and a passion for solving problems in new and better ways.
And innovation is taking place at a lightning-fast pace every day at Optum.
As the fastest growing part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, we're expanding our team in Ireland and creating excellent opportunities for those who want greater purpose and more impact in their work.
We'll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career.
You'll provide the talent, ambition, and drive.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a fundamental part of a delivery project, leading one of our scrum teams within the Provider Tech space in Dublin.
You will be working with a very technical piece of architecture and will collaborate with internal IT Specialists and strategic partners through all phases of the development life cycle.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny Offices and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Perform all phases of software engineering including; requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing

• Design and implement performance and operational enhancements

• Design & Develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity

• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvement

• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines

• Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software release

• Work with a team of software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project

• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and design solutions as required

• Design, code, test, debug, and document software, whilst enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business requirements

• Work very closely with architecture groups to drive software solutions

• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership

• Collaborate on design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the scrum team

• Provide on call support in rotation with team for DevOps service for 24/7 mission critical systems
You will be rewarded and recognised 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.
Required Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• Experience building backend services with Java using Spring Framework (Boot, Core, MVC), Spring Boot strongly preferred

• Experience working with Docker or Kubernetes.

• Experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka or similar messaging technologies

• Relational Database knowledge

• Experience with cloud services; either AWS or GCP

• Experience with Generative AI & Large Language Models (Gen AI, LLM)

• Experience building modular, testable, and reusable software

• Experience building and integrating with internal and external RESTful services

• Experience with DevOps toolsets such as Jenkins, Terraform, GitHub Actions etc.
Software development methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban

• Familiarity with AI & Machine Learning (AI-ML) concepts
Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing production grade applications in Spark.

• Experience developing analytics applications in Spark or similar

• Strong programming skills in Scala, or Python
Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application.
Proof will be required to support your application.
All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.
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 marginalised 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.
Please note that if you are NOT a passport holder of the country for the vacancy you might need a work permit.
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