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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

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to all stages of software development lifecycle

• Design, implement and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency

• Analyze user requirements to define business objectives

• Envisioning system features and functionality

• Define application objectives and functionality

• Ensure application designs conform with business goals

• Develop and test software

• Identify and resolve any technical issues arising

• Create detailed design documentation

• Propose changes to current Java infrastructure

• Develop technical designs for application development

• Develop multimedia applications

• Write well designed, testable code

• Conducting software analysis, programming, testing, and debugging

• Manage Java and Java EE application development

• Develop documentation to help users

• Transforming requirements into stipulations

• Prepare and produce releases of software components

• Support continuous improvement, investigating alternatives and technologies, and presenting for architectural review

• Analyzes and investigates

• Provides explanations and interpretations within area of expertise

• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience

• Experience with popular web application frameworks, such as Play and Spark

• Experience with both external and embedded databases

• Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems

• Solid understanding of object-oriented programming

• Familiar with various design and architectural patterns

• Skill for writing reusable Java libraries using spring boot

• Knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java

• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and RESTful

• Familiarity with Java GUI frameworks (such as Swing, SWT, and AWT depending on project requirements)

• Knack for writing clean, readable Java code

• Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application

• Basic understanding of the class loading mechanism in Java

• Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

• Basic understanding of JVM, its limitations, weaknesses, and workarounds

• Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

• Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, and Gradle

• Familiarity with continuous integration

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 marginalized 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.