Backend Engineer

Digital Software Engineer

The Coaching platform offers preventive programs that help participants significantly improve their health. Some examples from our portfolio of programs are a smoke cessation, a weight loss, and a hypertension program. Users have access to coaches through calls and text messaging, read state of the art material about well-being, attend classes, and more. From the technical perspective the platform has a web portal, mobile applications, many backend services, and integrations with external partners. Our microservices and APIs therefore support a wide range of use-cases for the different types of clients.

As part of our Optum Digital Coaching team, in this role you will play a significant part in solutioning, designing, and developing digital software components used across multiple member-facing portals. You will work in an Agile Scrum environment, collaborating closely with the business product management and members of a global engineering team. You will apply your skills in a highly dynamic, innovative, forward-thinking environment that follows industry best practices and fosters engineering culture. A qualified candidate is a seasoned engineer with solid Scala development experience, advanced knowledge of modern frameworks, strong software integration experience and experience with defining technical solutions. He/she will develop application code hands-on and collaborate with the Platform Architect and stakeholders to define innovative digital solutions. Day-to-day responsibilities include:

• Collaborate with product and IT stakeholders to build understanding of systems or RESTful APIs involved in integrations
• Demonstrate strong interest in application architecture and solution design
• Recommend complex integrated solutions that fulfill business requirements and align with technology roadmaps
• Design and develop product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Contribute to defining technical road maps; identify technical improvement and refactoring opportunities
• Ensure that all delivered solutions adhere to industry best-practices for scalability, maintainability, usability, availability, extensibility, security, and portability
• Work with geographically distributed Agile teams
• Work with product owners, product managers, and other stakeholders to groom & solution features
• Provide accurate and timely estimates for features, user stories, and tasks
• Identify and implement innovative solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Participate in code reviews and adhere to best practices
• Be aware of current security trends, tools, and requirements
• Provide input to planning activities
• Participate in rotational on-call schedules as needed
• Work outside of standard office hours as needed and, on occasion, support night-time releases

Bachelors or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field

Software solutioning and integration experience

5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Scala, Java, C# and modern back-end development frameworks, such as Play, Spring

Minimum 2 Years of Scala Experience or experience with the functional programming paradigm in other languages (e.g., Java Stream API)

3+ years of experience with REST APIs and MicroServices

Working experience with CI/CD pipelines

Minimum 2 years of Experience with relational Databases

Good written and oral communication Skills