Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software, Full Stack Developer

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.

Join our engineering team building cutting-edge healthcare technology solutions that improve pharmacy workflows and patient care. You'll work on a distributed microservices architecture supporting prescription processing, insurance workflows, and pharmacy management systems.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintainmicroservicessupporting pharmacy workflows
• Buildintegrationswith external healthcare systems and APIs
• Implement data processing pipelines for healthcare analytics
• Writecomprehensive testsand maintain high code quality standards
• Collaborate onsystem architecture and technical decision making
• Support production deploymentsand incident response

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear directions on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ yearsof Python development experience
• 3+ years of experience with
  
  AWS services(Lambda, Dynamo
  
  DB, S3, SQS) or other cloud provider equivalents
• 2+ years of experience inasync programming and modern Python patterns
• 2+ years of experience with
  
  RESTful APIdevelopment
• 2+ years of understanding ofrelational and No
  
  SQL databases
• 2+ years of Test-driven developmentmindset with pytest experience
• 2+ years of knowledge ofCI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with serverless architecture and Lambda functions
• Knowledge of healthcare/pharmacydomain or regulated industries
• Background inevent-driven microservicesand service-oriented architecture
• Experience with data validation, serialization/marshallingframeworks (Pydantic, Marshmallow)
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code(Cloud Formation, Terraform)
• Experience with flask/SQL alchemyor other modern MVC framework and ORM

* All Telecommuters will be required to adhere to United Health Group's Telecommuter Policy.

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Final date to receive applications:This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At United Health 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.

United Health Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

United Health Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.