Job Description

Are you passionate about technology? Obsessed with customer delight? Are you a team builder, a team player, a leader extraordinaire? Do you find yourself constantly looking for ways to do better, be better and build better software? Here at Optum, our Product Engineering team is looking for an exceptional Senior Full Stack Engineer with an insatiable appetite for continuous improvement and innovation. We are looking for a DevOps missionary to take software concepts from paper to production and beyond; to drive relentlessly excellent customer support in production for an always-on suite of products with a global user base.

Primary Responsibilities (What you will do here):

• Partner with Business, Technical and Strategic Product Owner to meet project commitments in an agile framework; rapidly delivering value to our customers via technology solutions.
• Contribute to the applications’ technology stack and drive modern solutions to complex problems.
• Participate in design and development of resilient, reliable, scalable and self-healing solutions to meet and exceed customer requirements.
• Ensure that all parts of the application ecosystem are thoroughly and effectively covered with telemetry.
• Eliminate “churn” and “waste” via automation of menial tasks.
• Collaborate with engineers across partner-teams to build cohesive and optimal solutions.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in oral and written forms, and be able to present and demonstrate work to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Assist Delivery Manager in interviewing to build a team.
• Be in sync with Architect for application Design.
• Mentor more junior members of the engineering team to develop and perform as highly as possible.

What you are like

• Have a great, positive attitude.
• A natural leader - someone people are easily convinced to follow and emulate.
• Never blocked. You find a way!
• Willing and eager to dive in and figure it out. No system is built from unicorn horn dust. It's just code.
• You take extreme ownership and pride in your work.
• Care deeply about team culture and actively influence a positive culture.
• Will automate something so you don't have to do it twice.
• You build everything 'as code': Infrastructure, pipeline, testing, monitoring, etc.
• Never stop learning.

Required Qualifications:

• Graduate degree or equivalent experience.
• Deep understanding of software engineering and processes: design patterns, algorithms, data structures, schemas and queries, system design, unit testing, code reviews, agile and dev-ops, as well as industry patterns for application architecture and integration.
• Experience working with teams that leveraged three or more of the following: continuous integration / continuous delivery tools, REST API development, serverless architecture, containerization, IaC, public / private cloud, web applications, web services, application observability and/or messaging/ stream architecture.
• Previous IT full-stack engineering experience.
• 7+ years of experience working on commercially available software and / or healthcare platforms as a Data Engineer.
• 5+ years of production experience with AWS cloud technologies.
• 3+ years of solid experience designing and building Enterprise Data solutions on cloud leveraging Spark, Github Actions & Terraform.
• 2+ years writing unit or integration tests.
• AI/ML for team productivity or Business effectiveness like copilot etc.
• Skilled at optimizing SQL statements.
• Subject matter expert on Cloud technologies preferably AWS and Big Data ecosystem.

The more of these you have experience with, the better:

• Instrumenting apps with Azure AppInsights, and creating effective alarms and dashboards.
• SRE principles (error budgets, alarming practices, etc).
• Healthcare domain background.
• Development experience in Docker, Cloud, Kubernetes, Data Streaming via Kafka/Event Hub.
• Experience with technologies such as: HTML/Javascript, Playwright, NodeJS, Git, SOA, .NET, C#, React.

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