Senior Software Engineer

12 month W2 contract (potential for extension) Remote

Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well-being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.

• Designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components that meet all technical specifications and business requirements per assigned work items.
• Work closely with lead engineers to develop the best technical design and approach for new product development.
• Collaborates closely with Business Analysts on developing requirements and may assist with estimating
• Instill best practices for software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements, and deliver high-quality work on tight schedules.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Operational Excellence – build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services.
• Mentors other software engineers

• Experience leveraging AI tools in the software development lifecycle in order to improve quality and efficiency.
• 5+ years’ experience in full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment.
• Deep hands‑on technical expertise in building web applications and RESTful web services.
• Experience with MS SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, or other similar relational database management system.
• Experience with .NET Core or similar object‑oriented programming language.
• Experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and test automation.
• Experience building cloud‑native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field and/or relevant experience will be considered.
• Basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot applications running within Kubernetes.
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and automated provisioning & configuration management.
• Basic understanding of networking and internet protocols.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops pipelines
• Familiarity with Git Ops principles (and tools like Flux or Argo CD)
• Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP
• Familiarity with LeSS / Large Scale Scrum

Please note - This position will support Optum Serve’s performance of a United States (U.S.) Government contract and will require the successful applicant to access and/or process Non Critical Sensitive information (Personally Identifiable Information [PII]/Protected Health Information [PHI]) from or contained in a U.S. Government IT system.

To fulfill the data and IT system access requirements for this position, the successful applicant will be required to successfully complete a Trustworthy Determination, which will require the successful applicant to:
1) be a U.S. citizen
2) pass a National Agency Check with law enforcement in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position and
3) pass a Credit Check in order to obtain the access privileges required by the position.