Software Engineer - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting‑edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.

Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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.

• Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams' work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
• Continues to receive guidance on own code reviews primarily around solution refinement rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
• Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
• Solves more complex problems. APIs/Data Structures/ Algorithms/Application sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable, and performant
• Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
• Leaves code in a better state than they found it
• In alignment with sprint and program goals, choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt
• Incorporates automation in test, build, and deploy processes to drive team efficiency
• Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes
• Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alerting into the definition of done
• Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket resolution
• Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components
• Understands most common security threats and patterns at both the application layer and infrastructure layers and delivers solutions devoid of them
• Works with Product Management to ensure Stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
• Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on‑time completion
• Helps to unblock the team when there a blockages
• Limits work in progress by shipping features/deploying software often
• Decomposes Features into manageable stories/tasks
• Considers the User Experience, business impact, and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
• Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
• Understands business/financial impact of stability and resiliency
• Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements

You’ll be rewarded and recognized 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 provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
• 4+ years of experience in Java Programming (Solid Java Knowledge) and Spring boot
• 4+ years of experience with Mongo
  
  DB, Kafka
• 4+ years of working experience in set up or maintenance of CI or CD pipeline (Git Hub Actions)
• 4+ years of experience with building microservices
• 3+ years of working with modern Front-End technologies like React
• 3+ years of experience with Splunk, Dynatrace
• 3+ years of production support experience
• 3+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, Terraform and EKS
• 6+ months of experience with building AI Agents/Agentic Workflows

• Experience building robust, consumer-facing software cloud-native applications
• Experience with security reviews
• Proven solid communication skills to articulate technical concepts to other engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven solid infrastructure as code experience Terraform
• Proven solid…