Lead Mobile Software Engineer - Remote

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Optum Technology Digital team is on a mission to disrupt the healthcare industry, transforming UHG into an industry-leading Consumer brand. We deliver hyper-personalized digital solutions that empower direct-to-consumer, digital-first experiences, educating, guiding, and empowering consumers to access the right care at the right time. Our mission is to revolutionize healthcare for patients and providers by delivering cutting-edge, personalized and conversational digital solutions.

We're Consumer Obsessed, ensuring they receive exceptional support throughout their healthcare journeys. As we drive this transformation, we're revolutionizing customer interactions with the healthcare system, leveraging AI, cloud computing, and other disruptive technologies to tackle complex challenges. Serving United Health Group's digital technology needs, the Consumer Engineering team impacts millions of lives through United Healthcare & Optum.

The Optum Technology Chief Digital Office (CDO) Leadership team is transforming Optum to be an industry-leading Consumer brand. We are on a journey towards delivering a best-in-the-industry consumer experience to our patients and providers by delivering personalized digital solutions that support our consumers throughout their healthcare journeys. This team is transforming to meet the moment - to begin radically altering the way our customers engage with the healthcare system using modern tech to solve some of the most complex problems experienced along the way.

Serving all of United Health Group's digital technology needs, the CDO team is responsible for driving outcomes across nearly 30 million+ human lives with United Healthcare insurance, a number which puts UHC at the top of the pack as the largest managed care provider in the United States.

As a Lead Mobile Engineer for the Consumer Engineering Rx team you'll be responsible for evaluating and providing technical design/implementation direction for the Optum Pharmacy mobile roadmap and how it evolves into our One Pharmacy initiative. We need someone with a strong background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best-practices. An aptitude for collaboration across product & engineering teams is critical to further mature our existing products in to various mobile app surfaces.

• Architectural design
• Collaboration & mentoring
• Public cloud based serverless & event-based architectures
• Engineering best practices
• Dev Sec Ops
• Hands-on development knowledge (React Native, Typescript, Node JS)
• Performance engineering

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Lead design and mentor developers with native experiences for our Pharmacy microproducts which get ingested into multiple mobile apps
• Use your expertise to lay down architectural foundations and provide guidance on development, with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt
• Delivery of roadmap that helps transform capabilities by combining access to the right tools, data, platforms and scalable computing with Optum's healthcare expertise and industry leading data assets
• Produce high quality solutions that are highly reliable and scalable
• Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
• Encourage the growth of engineers through…