Principal Full Stack Engineer

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 inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

As the Principal Software Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development and execution of the vision for enabling solutions. As a principal engineer, you will ensure technical tasks and properly detailed, designed and executed per existing standards. You will also need to work with other engineering teams and leaders - solving their use cases, discussing issues and resolving them. The engineering work is primarily done using cloud-based services like GCP, Azure and AWS and it is therefore essential that for our engineers to be successful, they should have had experience working on cloud-based services.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work with engineering teams to help solve business problem
• Design, implement, test, deploy and maintain innovative software solutions to transform service performance, durability, cost, and security
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure a high standard of quality for all of the team's deliverables
• Write high quality distributed system software
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Perform code review and mentor junior engineers
• Solicit differing views and are willing to change your mind as you learn more
• Mentor junior engineers
• Reviews the work of others
• Develops innovative approaches
• Sought out as expert
• Serves as a leader or mentor
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• 12+ years industry experience as a Software Engineer or a Software Developer
• Experience working in a complex, service-oriented service development
• Experience in working with engineering leaders
• Good knowledge on technology stack like Java (Spring Boot), REST APIs, Python
• Knowledge of professional software engineering and best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build process, testing, and operations
• Good understanding and hands on architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) activities
• Proficiency in cloud platforms and services (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Proven solid computer science and development fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, algorithm design, and complexity analysis
• Proven flexible, adapting to meet the needs of the team, project, or product

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience using terraform or other CI/CD IaC
• Knowledge or working experience on AI/ML projects

At UnitedHealth 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.