Job Description
Lead Full Stack Engineer role at Optum, a global organization delivering care and technology to improve health outcomes. The successful candidate will design, develop, and maintain new features on the Emisar Analytics Gateway product.
About the role:
At Optum, we're building a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation to support the healthcare needs of the future. Our teams are at the forefront of developing and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain new features on the Emisar Analytics Gateway product
- Deliver and integrate features with backend dependencies
- Collaborate with Product, UI/UX, and Architecture teams to design new features
- Work alongside the operations team to deploy new features to production
- Operate as a key member of an Agile Full Stack engineering team
- Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback
- Guide and mentor Full Stack Engineers in the team
- Implement best practices for software development, including testing, documentation, and version control
- Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues
- Stay current with emerging trends in full stack development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve code quality and development practices
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- Strong software product development experience working on commercially available software products
- Experience with REST/JSON APIs, Java, Spring, and SpringBoot, Microservices, No-SQL Data Stores, Docker, Containers
- 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
- Experience of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery using tools like Jenkins/Github Actions
- Practical experience of deploying infrastructure and applications as code using Terraform
- Experience with building web applications on NodeJS
- Working knowledge of 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
- Proven track record of driving new technology across the organization
- Excellent leadership and communication skills
- Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail
Preferred Qualifications:
- Practical experience of deploying infrastructure and applications using Terraform
- Practical experience of developing solutions hosted within one of the major cloud providers
- Prior experience in lead/senior software engineer role
- Hands-on experience of securing web applications
- Good understanding of Microservices architecture
- Experience in the healthcare industry
- Excellent time management, communication, decision-making, and presentation skills
At Optum, we're committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes. We believe everyone deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life.