Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is hiring an Associate Software Engineer to build healthcare portal features for claims and insurance processing. The role develops and improves full-stack applications, backend services, and APIs, and supports production monitoring, AI-powered automation, and event-driven cloud solutions.
Responsibilities
- Build healthcare portal features for claims and insurance processing
- Develop Java backend services and RESTful API integrations using Java 11/17/21, Spring Boot, and PostgreSQL
- Improve application performance, system responsiveness, and page load times across full-stack platforms
- Participate in requirements gathering, solution design, code reviews, and Agile software delivery
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and diagnose production application health using Splunk
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions and automations to address complex technical challenges with an emphasis on responsible AI practices
- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline development workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and drive continuous software delivery improvements
- Develop event-driven streaming components using Apache Kafka and cloud services on AWS
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 1+ years of full-stack software development experience using Java (Java 17 or higher) and Spring Boot
- 1+ years of experience building web applications using React and TypeScript
- 1+ years of experience working with relational databases and writing SQL queries using PostgreSQL
- 1+ years of experience with application logging/monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk) and version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Experience with healthcare domain applications, claims processing, or insurance portals
- Exposure to or experience enhancing Adobe Experience Manager (AEM)-based web applications
- Experience designing and implementing RESTful microservices
- Experience securing APIs using Spring Security, JWT, and OAuth2
- Experience developing event-driven solutions using Kafka and Spring Cloud
- Experience building automated CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions
- Experience deploying and monitoring applications on AWS
- Hands-on experience integrating AI models or leveraging AI-assisted coding tools to accelerate software development
- Experience participating in code reviews and collaborating with architecture and DevOps Team
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Incentive and recognition programs (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Equity stock purchase (subject to eligibility requirements)
- 401k contribution (subject to eligibility requirements)
- Flexibility to telecommute from anywhere within the U.S., subject to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy
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