UnitedHealth Group Hiring for Software Engineering Lead – GOLANG at Gurgaon, India Full Time

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:

• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and contribute to code reviews

• Develop infrastructure as code to manage cloud infrastructure

• Employ cloud-native managed services effectively

• Ensure system reliability, performance, and security by following industry best practices

• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to the continuous improvement of our development processes

• 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:

• 8+ years of experience in software development, including equivalent education/training

• 5+ years experience with building distributed systems using modern language(s) such as Golang

• 3+ years experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS services and infrastructure

• 1+ years experience with infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform

• Proven excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

• Familiarity with microservice architectures and the ability to design and implement cloud-based enterprise applications

• Familiarity with relational and non-relational (NoSQL) databases

• Familiarity with software design patterns and frameworks

• Solid understanding of software development best practices, including version control, testing, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)

• Willingness to learn and adapt to the changing tech landscape

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Front End Technologies (ES6, TypeScript, React, HTML, CSS)

• Knowledge of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes

• Familiarity with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or other Agile methodologies

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.