Senior Software Engineer
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be part of a delivery project leading one of our scrum teams within the Provider Tech space in Dublin. You will work with technical architecture and collaborate with internal IT Specialists and strategic partners through all phases of the development life cycle.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements. Individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.
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 release
* 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 team for DevOps service for 24/7 mission critical systems
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)
Preferred Qualifications:
* Experience developing production grade applications in Spark
* Experience developing analytics applications in Spark or similar
* Strong programming skills in Scala, or Python