Optum, the fast-growing part of UnitedHealth Group, is a leading information and technology-enabled health services business. Our teams are dedicated to modernizing the health care system and improving the lives of people and communities.

Serving virtually every dimension of the health system, we work with a diverse set of clients across 150 countries – from those who diagnose and treat patients to those who pay for care, deliver health services, and those who supply the cures. Optum maintains operations across North America, South America, Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Our innovative partnerships provide technology and tools that enable unprecedented collaboration and efficiency. As a result, we can tap into valuable health care data to uncover insights and develop strategies for better care at lower costs.

Here at Optum, part of United Health Group we'll put you in the driver's seat on vital projects that have strategic importance to our mission of helping people lead healthier lives. Yes, we share a mission that inspires. We need your organizational talents and business discipline to help fuel ours. It's the opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm

About The Role

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone. Join us and do your life's best work.

The Senior Full Stack Engineer will have passion for clean code, a hunger to take on challenging and exciting projects as well as an unrelenting drive to learn and deliver. Qualified candidates will be required to demonstrate the full stack hands on knowledge for this position.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of new features on the Emisar Analytics Gateway product
• Deliver and integrate features with the backend dependencies
• Work alongside the Product team to design new features for the product
• Collaborate with the operations team to deploy new features to production
• Operate as a key member of an Agile Full Stack engineering team
• Support junior Engineers in the team when required.
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent experience
• Strong software product development experience working on commercially available software products
• Practical experience of delivering high quality production software using Java/Typescript/Javascript & SQL
• Experience in using modern software engineering and product development processes including Agile / Scrum, Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, DevOps etc.
• Experience with REST/ JSON APIs, Java, Spring, and SpringBoot, Microservices, No-SQL Data Stores, Docker, Containers
• Experience with building web application on NodeJS.
• Working Knowledge on public clouds like Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and developing applications on Linux environments
• Deep knowledge and hands-on experience in API management platforms and API related activities: requirement analysis, software architecture and design, resource -based API modeling, and micro-services architecture
• Proven track record of acting as an advocate for driving new technology across the organization via the creation of communities and publishing SDK / libraries for reuse across the organization
• Strong experience of operating in a quickly changing environment and driving technological innovation to meet business requirements
  

Preferred Qualification

• Practical experience of developing solutions hosted within one of the major cloud providers (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud)
• Good understanding of Microservices architecture
• Experience in the healthcare industry
• Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
• Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction
• Practical experience of deploying infrastructure and applications using Terraform & Jenkins
• Hands on experience of securing web applications.
  

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.(sm)

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 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.

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