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.

UnitedHealthcare Rewards is a program designed to motivate members to live healthier lives by providing monetary incentives for accomplishing activity goals. You will dig into the complex but rewarding world of IoT, wearables, and cross-platform development, all at massive scale. The role demands system thinking, great execution, bold innovation, obsession with quality, solving problems with creativity while keeping the user in mind and ambition to take projects over the finish line.

The candidate will be working on an Agile Scrum team – 5-6 Full Stack Software Engineers, 1 Scrum Master, and other cross-functional partners. This candidate will have HR responsibility for the members of their team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of 6 to 8 Software Engineers and Agile Practitioners
• Join a development team to perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing with a focus on Java and/or Golang
• Own the build/deploy/release process and find ways to automate and improve our pipeline at every step
• Design reusable components, frameworks, and libraries
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
• Participate in an Agile / Scrum / Kanban methodology to deliver high-quality software releases every 2 weeks
• Mentor and guide other software engineers within the team
• Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity
• Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines

What skills/attributes are a must have:

• 5+ years of experience managing software engineers and agile practitioners
• 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software in a scaled distributed environment (preferably in public cloud - AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
• 5+ years of Experience with managing software engineers, performing software engineering, Git, automated testing frameworks, Relational databases
• 4+ years of experience with Full Stack Development (Java, Golang) or similar languages
• Experience with relational databases, NoSQL databases and Docker (Microsoft SQL Server & DynamoDB preferred)
• Excellence in technical communication with peers and non-technical colleagues
• Commitment to quality, performance, and efficiency

Nice to Have:

• Public Cloud Experience
• GraphQL
• AWS SQS
• DynamoDB

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make the health system work better for everyone. So, when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care must go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.

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