Software Engineer (Mid-Level)

Purpose

The Software Engineer will play a key role in working within OPTUM's legacy application
as it is being updated to a cloud-native platform which follows modern design standards.

Responsibilities

• Designs, codes, tests and debugs applications and components that meet all technical specifications and business requirements per assigned work items.
• Collaborates closely with stakeholders, product owners, and feature team on developing requirements.
• Refines business requirements into technical solutions, recommend alternative technical and business approaches, and lead engineering efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Perform code reviews.
• Operational Excellence - build, deploy, monitor, and operation of production services.
• Communicates effectively with business stakeholders and technical team.
• Mentor junior software engineers.
• Other duties as required.

Job Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or Computer
• Engineering or related field or related field or 4 years' relevant experience will be
• considered in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years' experience in:
• Full lifecycle of software development projects in an agile environment.
• Hands-on technical expertise in building web applications and RESTful web
• services.
• MS SQL, PostgreSQL, or other similar relational database management system.
• .NET Core or similar object oriented programming language.
• Angular, React, or other JavaScript frameworks / libraries.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Must be a United States Citizen.

Preferred

• Experience with Domain Driven Design
• Experience with Event Driven Architecture
• Experience with application containerization, deployment, and orchestration
• across environments.
• Experience with CI/CD and test automation.
• Experience building cloud-native applications in Azure or similar cloud service provider.
• Basic understanding and ability to troubleshoot applications running within Kubernetes.
• Basic understanding of cloud infrastructure and automated provisioning & configuration management.
• Basic understanding of networking and internet protocols.
• Knowledge of Encryption, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), understanding of OWASP