Software Engineer

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 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:

At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and equitable. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. 

Todays' RCM is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem — payers, providers, and patients.

As a Software Engineer, this individual will be part of an exciting team working with a combination of different technologies, building out Java Spring boot applications along with a few UI applications. You will help in solving technically complex problems and you should be comfortable providing guidance to the junior members of the team and to other key stakeholders as appropriate. This role will involve working with a distributed, global team with multiple stakeholders. This role will include understanding technical and infrastructure requirements, process analysis, development of the automated workflow, full stack development, appropriate unit testing and successful release to deployment.

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 and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model. 

Primary Responsibilities of Software Engineer role:

• Work closely with business units, Senior Development Manager, Technology, and other teams in understanding the functional and technical design for processes identified for application and platform development.
• API Development and front-end development
• Microservices Architecture adherence and putting it to practice for the application and platform development.
• Design, Develop and Manage Public Cloud Resources.
• Providing architectural input over solution designs to ensure consistency and continuity across the company’s IT infrastructure and delivery team
• Design reusable components, frameworks, and libraries
• Ensure quality of coded components by using best practice
• Comply with and helps enforce design and coding standards, policies, and procedures
• Participate in an Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases through Sprints
• Communicate any identified project risks and issues to the delivery/project manager and providing inputs to the change control process
• Support the Operational Teams during the UAT and rollout phases
• Training and mentoring other developers within the team on development and delivery disciplines
• Develop team standards and best practices while keeping up to date with industry standards, and technology changes to help build robust systems to accommodate the industry requirements and business needs
• Be an individual contributor (very hands-on) as well as able to guide and mentor team members.

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 of Software Engineer role:

• J2EE proficiency with Microservice Technologies development experience.
• Prior experience and familiarity with Azure services and solutions, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS).
• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming (OOP) principles and design patterns
• Knowledge & proficiency on the Spring Boot framework and build tools like Maven, or Gradle
• Demonstrable experience with database technologies such as PostgreSQL, Hibernate, JPA etc.
• Prior experience of Source Control using GitHub.
• Practiced Knowledge of agile development practices and DevOps principles and experience in tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Azure Dev Ops.
• Experience with database design, implementation, optimization.
• Proven ability to reuse and/or develops for reuse complex components or capabilities to solve complex problems and needs
• Thorough understanding of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) concepts and SDLC processes
• Proven ability to enhance system design/architecture to simplify and improve resiliency in system interactions and dependencies
• Proven ability to contribute to or helps drive architecture/design, technology, and tool decisions and implementations
• Working knowledge of Development Environments such as IntelliJ, VS Code etc.

Preferred Qualifications of Software Engineer role:

• Experience with technologies such as: HTML/JavaScript, NodeJS, Angular, Python.
• Experience in collaborating with DevOps teams for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience in applying design patterns to solve common software design challenges and improve code quality
• Experience in container orchestration using Kubernetes for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications
• Knowledge of anti-patterns and when to avoid certain design patterns based on specific requirements
• Proven solid problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot issues related to containerization and orchestration preferably using tools like Splunk, APM etc.
• Proven ability to develop and sustain a mentality of life-long learning through ongoing investigation and investment in new coding, technical and operational skills, and knowledge
• Knowledge of Big Data and related technologies such as Spark and Databricks.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

 
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