Software Engineer

Optum

Ireland · Full-time · Entry

Software Engineer - Remote, Ireland

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.

About The Role

As a Fortune 5 business, we’re one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. There are no limits here on the resources you’ll have or the challenges you’ll encounter.

We have been supporting global healthcare systems from Ireland and the UK for more than 20 years, building a dynamic and diverse team of more than 2,100 talented individuals. With a continued record of growth and stability, we're on the constant lookout for fresh talent to join our expanding teams.

As a Software Engineer at Optum, you will be a key hands-on contributor within a team of talented software engineers. You will be a collaborative self-starter who is passionate about design, that can take ownership and drive results. In addition to having impact on a great team, you'll also discover the career opportunities you'd expect from an industry leader.

Primary Responsibilities Of The Software Engineer

Develop services, controls, and patterns for public cloud that enable security and privacy at scale
Help define technical solutions to meet business needs through Agile process
Foster high-performance, collaborative technical work resulting in high-quality output
Gather and analyze data to aide in informed decision-making while providing detailed, realistic estimates
Interact skillfully with business stakeholders and third-party technical organizations
Proactively automate infrastructure and services to enable a small team to deliver value to a global enterprise

You will 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 providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications of the Software Engineer: 

Experience as software development engineer or equivalent hands-on experience producing code for production systems
Proven experience in Public Cloud such as AWS, Azure, GCP beyond basic IaaS functionality
Experience programming in at least one high-level language (Java, C#, Python, Golang, JavaScript, etc.)  
Previous engineering experience in building infrastructure using code and repeatable designs
Experience in CI/CD practices and tools, specifically GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and source control systems such as Git.

Preferred Qualifications Of The Software Engineeer

Evidence based approach to making decisions and solving problems.
Design mindset - capable of building distributed/scalable services
Algorithms, data structures, OO design and other CS concepts.
API design and lifecycle management (REST, etc.)
Application foundations and frameworks (Spring, Flask, etc.)
Data storage, caching and optimization (NoSQL databases, Redis, PostgreSQL, etc.)
Inter-service messaging and streams discovery (SQS, Pub/Sub Kafka, etc.)
Instrumentation, logging and tracing (Prometheus, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor etc.)

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.

All telecommuters will be required to adhere to the 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 marginalised 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: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2023 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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