Basic relocation package
About Optum
Careers with Optum.
Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve.
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high-performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company, and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.
Position
As a Lead Full Stack Engineer, you’ll be part of a cross-functional team that’s responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. Your responsibilities will extend from designing system architecture to high-level programming, performance testing, and systems integration, ultimately designing innovative solutions to solve business problems. You will be a critical leader, focused on innovation; with experience building products across the stack and a firm understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages.
Primary Responsibilities
- Assume leadership of projects by partnering with analytic teams, subject matter experts and product leaders to design, implementation and deployment of the software product that leverages the cloud environment
- Work with engineering/development teams and product managers to ideate and architect software solutions and provide guidance on building end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scale
- Contribute to common frameworks and best practices in code development, deployment, and automation/orchestration of end-to-end analytic processes
- Work across the full stack, building highly scalable distributed solutions that enable positive user experiences
- Design client-side and server-side architecture
- Develop and manage well-functioning databases and applications
- Design and implement scalable web services and applications
- Engage with inspiring designers and front-end engineers to build front-end of applications through appealing visual design, and collaborate with leading back-end engineers to create reliable APIs
- Write low-level and high-level code
- Collaborate with the design team on developing micro-services
- Create security and data protection settings
- Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, and maintain high standards for code quality and application design
- Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency
- Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software
- Work with agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and pursuing continued learning opportunities
- Collaborate across time zones via Slack, GitHub comments, documents, and frequent team calls
- Mentor and train junior members of the team
Your qualification
- Develop and implement technical efforts to design, build and deploy Azure/Databricks applications on the web
- Proven hands-on experience building web applications from concept through execution
- Advanced knowledge of front-end languages such as HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, and JQuery
- Proficient in back-end languages such as Java, Python, Rails and Ruby
- Proficient in JavaScript frameworks such as React and Node.js
- Deep understanding of REST, web security, session management, etc.
- Proven ability ensuring the feasibility of UX designs
- Skilled at UX design implementation
- Experience with designing, configuring, and managing cloud infrastructure (Azure/Databricks)
- Strong exposure to API (REST) web services development & deployment
- Programming experience (8+ years) – Python, SQL, Spark
- Good Experience (8+ years) on DevOps, CI/CD on cloud solution in Azure / AWS etc. and manage cloud infrastructure/container services like Kubernetes/ Docker, etc.
- Hands-on experience developing data pipelines that demonstrate a strong understanding of software engineering principles
- Ability to work with business and technical audiences on business requirement meetings, technical white boarding exercises, and SQL coding/debugging sessions
- Familiar with Airflow or similar orchestration tool
Will be a plus
- Experience working in projects with agile/scrum methodologies
- Experience designing wireframes, mock ups and prototypes
- Databricks experience
- Experience with shell scripting languages
Additional details
A relocation package is discussed individually.