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Senior Software Engineer - Remote 🔥


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.


You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.


Primary Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop and modify highly specialized computer applications to drive user efficiency and overall business success
  • Ensure these applications meet Optum's demanding standards for privacy and security as required by strict internal policies and industry-specific regulations
  • Create efficient, high- performance enhancements to proprietary applications, enhancements that address and achieve specific customer goals
  • Design, develop, and implement new technology features that build on existing functionality, including but not limited to, integrating with new technology
  • Ensure compliance with software development life cycle protocols and ensure project priorities are recorded and satisfied according to those protocols, raising any risk factors to the appropriate project management team
  • Improve functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of applications
  • Adhere to version control, release management, and deployment protocols to distribute new functionality to the user base
  • Satisfy data accessibility standards by ensuring all electronic information and technology is fully usable by people with disabilities
  • Facilitate all quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing, by quickly resolving issues and providing all required metrics and data, including issue tracking
  • Design and develop reporting as needed to summarize and analyze application functionality
  • Collaborate with solutions users to build, extend, and enhance applications that accelerate efficiency and innovation across the organization
  • Provide post deployment support to quickly respond to and resolve unexpected service problems in production
  • Telecommuting is available from anywhere in the U.S


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

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • 5+ years of experience involving the following:
    • JAVA, J2EE, JavaScript, Spring Boot, Hibernate, Web services


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
  • 2+ years of experience in SQL and AWS


Careers with Optum. Our objective is to make health care simpler and more effective for everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, you can play a role in creating a healthier world, one insight, one connection and one person at a time. We bring together some of the greatest minds and ideas to take health care to its fullest potential, promoting health equity and accessibility. Work with diverse, engaged and high-performing teams to help solve important challenges.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, or Washington Residents Only: The salary range for California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island or Washington residents is $85,000 to $167,300. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers 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 UnitedHealth Group, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.


*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy


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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.


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

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