Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Optum is a part of the UnitedHealth Group family, focused on improving health care for everyone. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to develop proprietary software and systems, ensuring compliance with internal policies and industry regulations while enhancing functionality and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Develop proprietary Optum software and systems that automate and facilitate Optum's day-to-day business needs
- Ensure proprietary systems meet Optum's demanding standards for privacy and security as required by strict internal policies and industry-specific regulations
- Design, develop, and implement new features that build on existing functionality, including but not limited to integrating with new technology
- Ensure compliance with Optum's software development life cycle protocols and ensure project priorities are recorded and satisfied according to those protocols, raising any risk factors to the appropriate Optum project management team
- Constantly improve functionality, reliability, testability, availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency
- Distribute new functionality to the user base
- Design and develop reporting as needed to summarize and analyze Optum system functionality
- Satisfy technical requirements for performance, resiliency, availability and scalability
- Collaborate with Optum system users to build, extend, and enhance systems that accelerate efficiency and innovation across the organization
- Provide post deployment support
- Facilitate all Optum quality assurance protocols, including user acceptance testing
Skills
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field
- 24 months of experience in job offered or a software engineering-related occupation
- Experience with UML
- Experience with Java
- Experience with J2EE
- Experience with JSP
- Experience with CSS
- Experience with HTML and JavaScript
- Experience with JQuery
- Experience with Spring or Hibernate
- Experience with SOAP
- Experience with Node JS
- Experience with SOA
- Experience with JAX-WS
- Experience with Spring-WS
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with Relational Databases such as Oracle, MS SQL, or Junit
- Experience utilizing Tomcat on Linux, SVN, Github, Sonar or Jenkins
Benefits
- UnitedHealth Group offers a full range of comprehensive benefits, including medical, dental and vision, as well as matching 401k and an employee stock purchase plan.
Company Overview
Optum provides primary care and optical care services. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://nm.optum.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Optum has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 73 in 2026, 648 in 2025, 559 in 2024, 620 in 2023, 851 in 2022, 593 in 2021, 438 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.