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Senior Full Stack Engineer

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.

About the role:

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

The Senior Full Stack Engineer will have passion for clean code, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects as well as an unrelenting drive to learn and deliver. Qualified candidates will be required to demonstrate the full stack hands on knowledge for this position.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities of the Senior Full Stack Engineer:

• Deliver and integrate features with the backend dependencies

• Collaborate with the operations team to deploy new features to production

• Operate as a key member of Elevate technical enablement team with strategic architecture focus

• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback

• Responsible for design and build of large and more complex components, while influencing overall architecture, patterns, and automation

• Develop software and cloud architecture components

• Conduct research on innovative technologies and build POC’s for strategic technical enablers for OPEN team portfolio

• Guide and mentor the Junior Engineers in the team when required

• Implement best practices for software development including testing, documentation and version control

• Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues and provide timely resolution to technical challenges

• Stay current with emerging trends in full stack development and evaluate their impact on our products

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to continuously improve code quality, development practices and processes

You will be rewarded and recognised for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Senior Full Stack Engineer:

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent experience

• Strong software product development experience working on commercially available software products

• Experience with REST/ JSON APIs, Java, Spring, and SpringBoot, Microservices, No-SQL Data Stores, Docker, Containers

• Practical experience of delivering high quality production software using Java/Typescript/Javascript & SQL

• Experience in using modern software engineering and product development processes including Agile / Scrum, Kanban

• Experience of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery using tools like Github Actions.

• Practical experience of deploying infrastructure and applications as code using Terraform

• Working Knowledge on public clouds like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and developing applications on Linux environments

• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms and API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro-services architecture

• Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members

• Strong problem solving skills with attention to detail.

• Strong experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirements

Preferred Qualifications of the Senior Full Stack Engineer:

• Hands on experience of securing web applications.

• Experience in React

• Good understanding of Microservices architecture

• Experience in the healthcare industry

• Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills

• Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.