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.

We are looking for a full stack developer eager to work with cutting-edge technologies and innovative architectures in a dynamic, boundary-pushing organization. This role involves complete, end-to-end project ownership. The ideal candidate will have experience building products across the stack, with a solid understanding of web frameworks, APIs, databases, and multiple back-end languages. As part of a small, agile team, the full stack developer will leverage new technologies to address challenges in both front-end and back-end architecture, delivering exceptional experiences to users worldwide.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain highly scalable, distributed solutions across the full stack to enhance user experiences and drive business growth

• Create new features and infrastructure to support rapidly evolving business and project needs

• Lead new projects from initial concept through to deployment

• Ensure optimal application performance, uptime, and scalability, while maintaining high standards for code quality and design

• Follow agile development methodologies, adhering to best practices and continuously seeking learning opportunities

• Engage in all phases of agile software development, from design and implementation to deployment

• Architect and guide the development of end-to-end systems optimized for speed and scalability

• Utilize technologies such as React, JavaScript, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, REST, WebAPI, HTML5, AJAX, JSON, and JQuery

• Collaborate with talented designers and front-end engineers and work alongside leading back-end engineers to develop reliable APIs

• Provide technical guidance to the team on solutions and complex scenarios

• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience

• 4+ years of experience in developing large-scale software applications

• Experience in unit and integration testing

• Knowledgeable in technologies such as React, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, REST, WebAPI, HTML5, AJAX, JSON, JQuery, and RPA

• Proficient in building web applications and designing databases, with solid SQL expertise

• Proven skilled in designing and integrating RESTful APIs

• Proven excellent debugging and optimization abilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information technology, or engineering

• Professional certification

• Proven enthusiasm for learning new tools, languages, workflows, and philosophies

• DevOps capability

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.