Software Engineer - Remote

For those who want to invent the future of health care, here's your opportunity. We're going beyond basic care to health programs integrated across the entire continuum of care. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Optum Serve is dedicated to serving our nation's military and Veterans. We have the honor to support federal agencies in their efforts to advance the United States health care system and improve the overall health and well‑being of all those who serve or have served our country. Our health services are designed to help everyone live healthier lives.

To support this mission, OSIT has embarked on a multi‑year modernization journey, within which the Software Engineer will play a key role: working within our legacy application as we update it to a cloud‑native platform which follows modern design standards.

The statements listed below are not intended to be all inclusive of the duties and responsibilities of the position. Based on leadership decisions and business needs, "all other duties as assigned" will be expected for each position.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

• Designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components that meet all technical specifications and business requirements per assigned work items
• Collaborates closely with stakeholders, product owners, and feature team on developing requirements
• Refines business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Operational Excellence - build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services.
• Communicates effectively with business stakeholders and technical team.
• Mentors junior software engineers

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.

• 2+ years of experience in full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment
• Experience leveraging AI tools in the software development lifecycle in order to improve quality and efficiency
• Experience with MS SQL, Postgre
  
  SQL, or other similar relational database management system
• Experience with .NET Core or similar object oriented programming language
• Hands‑on technical expertise in building web applications and RESTful web services
• Proven excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or Computer Engineering or related field or related field or 4+ years of relevant experience will be considered in lieu of a degree
• Experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration across environments
• Experience with CI/CD and test automation
• Experience building cloud‑native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider
• Basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot applications running within Kubernetes
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and automated provisioning & configuration management
• Basic understanding of networking and internet protocols
• Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP

* All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to United Health Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer 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 us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on…