Senior Software Engineer
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At Optum, we're revolutionizing healthcare through innovative technology. Our work directly improves health outcomes by connecting people with care, pharmacy benefits, data, and resources they need to feel their best.
Our culture is guided by diversity and inclusion, featuring talented peers, comprehensive benefits, and career development opportunities. By joining our team, you'll make a meaningful impact on the communities we serve, advancing health equity on a global scale.
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About the Role
Innovative change in healthcare doesn't happen overnight; it requires imagination, passion for problem-solving, and a commitment to pushing boundaries. At Optum, innovation is happening at an unprecedented pace every day.
As part of our rapidly growing team in Ireland, you'll be at the forefront of shaping our technology landscape. We'll provide the investment, support, and resources to advance your career, while you bring your talent, ambition, and drive.
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Job Description
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be a crucial member of a delivery project, leading one of our scrum teams within the Provider Tech space in Dublin. You will collaborate with internal IT specialists and strategic partners across all phases of the development life cycle.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements, allowing individuals living and working in the Republic of Ireland to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
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Primary Responsibilities:
* Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing.
* Design and implement performance and operational enhancements.
* Design & Develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity.
* Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvement.
* Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines.
* Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases.
* Work with a team of software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project.
* Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and design solutions as required.
* Design, code, test, debug, and document software, whilst enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business requirements.
* Work very closely with architecture groups to drive software solutions.
* Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues, and plans to technology leadership.
* Collaborate on design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the scrum team.
* Provide on-call support in rotation with the team for DevOps services for 24/7 mission-critical systems.
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Required Qualifications:
* Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
* Experience building backend services with Java using Spring Framework (Boot, Core, MVC), Spring Boot strongly preferred.
* Experience working with Docker or Kubernetes.
* Experience with messaging and stream processing on Kafka or similar messaging technologies.
* Relational Database knowledge.
* Experience with cloud services; either AWS or Azure.
* Experience building modular, testable, and reusable software.
* Experience building and integrating with internal and external RESTful services.
* Experience with DevOps toolsets such as Jenkins, Terraform, etc.
* Software development methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban.
* Familiarity with AI & Machine Learning (AI-ML) concepts.
* Experience with Generative AI & Large Language Models (Gen AI, LLM).
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Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience developing production-grade applications in Spark.
* Experience developing analytics applications in Spark or similar.
* Strong programming skills in Scala, or Python.
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Please note that 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.
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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.
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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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