About the position
For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives. To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi-year modernization journey, within which the Lead Software Engineer will play a key role: working within our legacy application as we update it to a cloud-native platform which follows modern design standards. This position will support Optum Serve's performance of a United States (U.S.) Government contract and will require the successful applicant to access and/or process Non Critical Sensitive information (Personally Identifiable Information [PII]/Protected Health Information [PHI]) from or contained in a U.S. Government IT system. To fulfill the data and IT system access requirements for this position, the successful applicant will be required to successfully complete a Trustworthy Determination, which will require the successful applicant to: 1) be a U.S. citizen 2) pass a National Agency Check with law enforcement in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position and 3) pass a Credit Check in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.
Responsibilities
- Designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components that meet all technical specifications and business requirements per assigned work items.
- Collaborates closely with stakeholders, product owners, and feature team on developing requirements.
- Refines business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
- Operational Excellence - build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services.
- Communicates effectively with business stakeholders and technical team.
- Mentors junior software engineers; performs code reviews.
- Provide or participate technical assistance in occasional on-call rotation after hours support and work with the team to troubleshoot and investigate system defects.
- E2E ownership from intake and refinement to deployment of production applications as well as monitoring and support.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field or related field or 4 years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 2+ years of experience in Full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment.
- 2+ years of experience in building web applications and RESTful web services.
- 2+ years of experience in full stack role with .NET Core or similar object-oriented programming language and Angular, Single SPA, or other TypeScript frameworks / libraries and micro frontends.
- United States citizenship.
Nice-to-haves
- 2+ years of experience in Cognizant Facets and dental claims management.
- 2+ years of experience in EDI 837D format standard.
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture.
- Experience with Azure DevOps (ADO) and application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments.
- Experience with CI/CD and test automation (Playwright, Cucumber, JMeter).
- Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider including Azure cloud constructs like Blobs, Service Bus, Vault, Entra ID, Functions etc.
- Experience with Helm, Terraform, Flux, and other infrastructure as code supporting technologies.
- Experience with ETL and data formats e.g. JSON, XML.
- Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Less framework.
- Basic understanding of HIPAA, PHI, PII.
- Basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot applications running within Kubernetes.
- Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and automated provisioning & configuration management.
- Basic understanding of networking and internet protocols.
- Basic understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability tools e.g. Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Elasticsearch, App Insights.
- Basic understanding of ServiceNow incident management intake flow.
- Proven knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP.
- Proven knowledge of Domain Driven Design.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package.
- Incentive and recognition programs.
- Equity stock purchase.
- 401k contribution.
