Senior Software Engineer - Santa Ana, CA
Santa Ana, CA

Job Description

Energize your career with one of Healthcare's fastest growing companies.

You dream of a great career with a great company - where you can make an impact and help people. We dream of giving you the opportunity to do just this. And with the incredible growth of our business, it's a dream that definitely can come true. Already one of the world's leading Healthcare companies, UnitedHealth Group is restlessly pursuing new ways to operate our service centers, improve our service levels and help people lead healthier lives. We live for the opportunity to make a difference and right now, we are living it up.

This opportunity is with one of our most exciting business areas: Optum - a growing part of our family of companies that make UnitedHealth Group a Fortune 5 leader.

Optum helps nearly 60 million Americans live their lives to the fullest by educating them about their symptoms, conditions and treatments; helping them to navigate the system, finance their healthcare needs and stay on track with their health goals. No other business touches so many lives in such a positive way. And we do it all with every action focused on our shared values of Integrity, Compassion, Relationships, Innovation & Performance.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing
* Design and implement product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
* Design reusable components, frameworks and libraries
* Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
* Participate in an Agile / Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases every 2 weeks through Sprints
* Design and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
* Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
* Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and come up with solutions as required
* Mentor and guide other software engineers within the team

Required Qualifications:

* Undergraduate degree (or higher) or equivalent work experience in a related field


* 5 years in the software engineering profession
* Working knowledge / experience with AEM (Adobe Experience Manager) product

Experience with UI technologies such as Angular, Bootstrap, CSS, Node, Templates, Single Page Application
* Experience with UI build process, UI unit test framework
* Experience with developing and consuming web services (REST, SOAP)
* Demonstrated success designing and building high - quality commercial software applications
* Proven experience delivering software using an Agile / Scrum methodology
* Expertise across the entire SLDC

Preferred Qualifications:

* Understanding of SOA design principles
* Working knowledge of APIs
* Experience in the Health Care industry

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)

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

Keywords: software engineer, IT, SLDC, AEM, UI, Santa Ana, California, CA