Lead 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 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 a Lead Engineer for the Consumer Engineering Rx team you’ll be responsible for evaluating and providing technical design/implementation direction for the Optum Pharmacy roadmap and how it evolves into our One Pharmacy initiative. We need someone with a strong background in architecture, design patterns, and engineering best-practices. An aptitude for collaboration across product & engineering teams is critical to further mature our existing products in to various surfaces & channels.

• Architectural design
• Collaboration & mentoring
• Public cloud based serverless & event-based architectures
• Engineering best-practices
• Dev Sec Ops
• Hands-on development knowledge (Node JS / Java / Go)
• Performance engineering

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.

• Leadership of agile teams building and supporting Public Cloud-based applications & components
• Use your expertise to lay down architectural foundations and provide guidance on development, with an eye toward avoiding and reducing technical debt.
• Delivery of roadmap that helps transform capabilities by combining access to the right tools, data, platforms and scalable computing with Optum’s healthcare expertise and industry leading data assets
• Produce high quality solutions that are highly reliable and scalable
• Work directly with Business, Technology, Digital partners to drive development of new service/product offerings
• Encourage the growth of engineers through skills development, objectives and goal setting
• Collaborate effectively in a cross-functional team of engineers, product leaders, scrum masters & User Experience engineers
• Support the software delivery team’s ability to rapidly deliver high-value, quality software through the use of automation and “everything - as - code” (EaC) best practices
• Ensure application stability with exceptional quality, reliability engineering, and security controls

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.

• 5+ years of experience with back-end technologies, such as Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Rest API Development
• 3+ years of experience leading technology operations for large and complex high throughput application or a technology platform
• 3+ years of experience with front-end web technologies, such as Angular, React, JavaScript, Typescript Node JS
• 3+ years of experience Full Stack Engineering Concepts (Front End Web Technologies & Back End Technologies) and hands-on on latest technologies
• 3+ years of experience enabling Dev Ops Maturity by driving CI/CD, automation, and continuous monitoring in all the applications, experience using tools like Docker, Dockers etc.
• Experience facilitating and leading architecture & delivery planning activities across geographically diverse and multi-disciplinary teams
• Demonstrated ability to innovate with a deep technical understanding of emerging technologies to address needs and problems of providing services to large and technically progressive organizations
• Demonstrated communication skills including explaining complex concepts effectively to technical and nontechnical audience, negotiation and persuasion, conflict…