Principal Software Engineer

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, architects, and product managers, to design and implement a scalable and secure payment system architecture
• Participate in architectural discussions and provide insights to ensure the system meets business requirements and industry standards
• Drive the adoption of DevOps principles and practices throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring seamless integration and deployment processes
• Champion the adoption of DevOps principles and practices across the software development lifecycle, ensuring efficient and seamless integration, continuous deployment, and delivery processes
• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, and deployment processes
• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to payment systems and cloud computing
• Continuously research and integrate emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends to enhance the payment system's capabilities and performance
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to improve development efficiency and system reliability
• Develop highly resilient and highly available components for the payment system based on microservices-based architecture using domain-driven design principles
• Design and develop highly resilient and available components for the payment system, leveraging microservices architecture and domain-driven design principles
• Ensure components are scalable, maintainable, and can handle high transaction volumes
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability
• Establish and maintain robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to proactively ensure optimal system performance and availability
• Use tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK stack to monitor system health and respond to incidents promptly
• Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a collaborative environment that promotes continuous learning, innovation, and professional growth
• Conduct code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and encourage best practices in software development
• Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Experience building microservices-based architectures using domain-driven design principles
• Good working knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, including knowledge about serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Good understanding of DevOps principles, Security best practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform)
• Familiarity in programming languages such as PL/SQL and experience with modern database engineering practices
• Familiarity with payment industry standards, protocols, and security best practices
• Proficiency in programming languages such as .NET/C# and experience with modern frameworks and libraries.
• Proven solid problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make sound technical decisions in a dynamic environment
• Proven excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to effectively work with cross-functional teams

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.