Principal 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 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.

As a Principal Engineer for the Consumer Engineering Rx Pharmacy team, you will evaluate and set technical design directions, collaborating with delivery peers’ teams to implement them. You are expected to be very hands‑on in design and implementation. We need someone with a solid background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best practices. An aptitude for collaboration across product and engineering teams is critical.

We are looking for someone exhibiting exceptional experience with:

• Architectural design
• Collaboration & mentoring
• Public cloud based serverless & event‑based architectures
• Engineering best practices
• Dev Sec Ops
• Hands‑on development knowledge (Node JS / Java / Go)
• Performance engineering

You will enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. 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.

• Build and support public cloud‑based applications & components
• Lay down architectural foundations and provide guidance to avoid and reduce technical debt
• Deliver a roadmap that transforms 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 reliable and scalable
• Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
• Encourage engineer growth through skills development, objectives, and goal setting
• Collaborate effectively in a cross‑functional team of engineers, product leaders, scrum masters & User Experience engineers
• Support rapid delivery of high‑value, quality software with automation and “everything‑as‑code” best practices
• Ensure application stability with exceptional quality, reliability engineering, and security controls

• 13+ years of experience leading software engineering solutions architecture for data intensive, scalable, high‑throughput platforms and applications
• 13+ years of experience with back‑end technologies such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, REST API development
• 7+ years of experience leading technology operations for large, complex, high‑throughput applications or platforms
• 5+ years of experience with front‑end web technologies such as Angular, React, JavaScript, Type Script, Node JS
• 5+ years of full stack engineering concepts (front end & back end) and hands‑on experience with latest technologies
• 5+ years of experience enabling Dev Ops maturity by driving CI/CD, automation, IaC, and continuous monitoring in all applications
• 3+ years of experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) on Azure using Terraform and Azure Kubernetes Service

• Experience facilitating and leading architecture & delivery planning across geographically diverse, multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience with technology strategy, budget, and policies at multiple organizational levels
• Experience with Azure components related to networking, security, compute, and resiliency
• Experience building mobile applications and/or leading mobile development teams
• Demonstrated ability to innovate with deep technical understanding of emerging technologies to address needs of large, progressive organizations
• Excellent communication skills, including explaining complex concepts to technical and non‑technical audiences, negotiation, persuasion, conflict resolution, and presenting to executives

* All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to United Health Group’s Telecommuter Policy.

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