Lead Software Engineer - Remote

UnitedHealth Group•Eden Prairie, MN

9h•Remote

About The Position

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. As a Lead Engineer for the Consumer Engineering Rx team you'll be responsible for evaluating and providing technical design/implementation direction for the Optum Pharmacy roadmap and how it evolves into our One Pharmacy initiative. We need someone with a strong background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best-practices. An aptitude for collaboration across product & engineering teams is critical to further mature our existing products in to various surfaces & channels. We are looking for someone exhibiting exceptional experience with Architectural design Collaboration & mentoring Public cloud based serverless & event-based architectures Engineering best-practices DevSecOps Hands-on development knowledge (Node JS / Java / Go) Performance engineering You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Requirements

5+ years of experience with back-end technologies, such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Rest API Development
3+ years of experience leading technology operations for large and complex high throughput application or a technology platform
3+ years of experience with front-end web technologies, such as Angular, React, JavaScript, Typescript Node JS
3+ years of experience Full Stack Engineering Concepts (Front End Web Technologies & Back End Technologies) and hands-on on latest technologies
3+ years of experience enabling DevOps Maturity by driving CI/CD, automation, and continuous monitoring in all the applications, experience using tools like Docker, Dockers etc.
Experience facilitating and leading architecture & delivery planning activities across geographically diverse and multi-disciplinary teams
Demonstrated ability to innovate with a deep technical understanding of emerging technologies to address needs and problems of providing services to large and technically progressive organizations
Demonstrated communication skills including explaining complex concepts effectively to technical and nontechnical audience, negotiation and persuasion, conflict resolution, and presenting to executive levels management

Nice To Haves

Experience with formulating technology strategy, budget, and policies at multiple levels of an organization
Experience with Azure components relating to networking, security, compute, and resiliency
Experience with building mobile applications and/or leading mobile development teams
Proven exposure to IaC (Infrastructure as Code) on Azure using Terraform and Azure Kubernetes Service
All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Responsibilities

Leadership of agile teams building and supporting Public Cloud-based applications & components
Use your expertise to lay down architectural foundations and provide guidance on development, with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
Delivery of roadmap that helps transform capabilities by combining access to the right tools, data, platforms and scalable computing with Optum’s healthcare expertise and industry leading data assets
Produce high quality solutions that are highly reliable and scalable
Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
Encourage the growth of engineers through skills development, objectives and goal setting
Collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team of engineers, product leaders, scrum masters & User Experience engineers
Support the software delivery team’s ability to rapidly deliver high-value, quality software through the use of automation and 'everything - as - code' (EaC) best practices
Ensure application stability with exceptional quality, reliability engineering, and security controls