Senior Software Engineer II
Role Overview
Optum seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to advance health optimization through technology-enabled healthcare solutions.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role Overview
Optum seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to advance health optimization through technology-enabled healthcare solutions.
Architecture and Engineering
- Contribute to component-level and service-level designs aligned with established architecture.
- Create technical design documents for medium-to-large features.
- Evaluate dependencies, technical impacts, trade-offs, and implementation approaches.
- Translate business requirements into scalable engineering solutions.
- Design, build, and maintain Python backend services and automation frameworks.
- Design APIs, data models, and integration workflows.
- Refactor existing solutions to reduce technical debt and improve maintainability.
Collaboration, Security, and Delivery
- Review pull requests for quality, readability, test coverage, and standards adherence.
- Mentor team members while contributing to coding and technical design.
- Collaborate with product, QA, DevOps, and platform teams.
- Apply secure coding practices and address identified vulnerabilities.
- Integrate security checks into CI/CD workflows and automation pipelines.
- Refine user stories and technical tasks with product management.
- Coordinate dependencies and support frequent feature delivery and deployment.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of software engineering experience is required.
- 4+ years of hands-on production Python development is required.
- Experience designing APIs, microservices, and distributed systems is required.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud is required.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar tools is required.
- Experience with Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar Infrastructure as Code tools is required.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes is required.
- Experience mentoring engineers or leading feature teams is required.
- Developer tooling or automation platform experience is required.
- DevSecOps, security automation, networking, and modern application architecture knowledge are required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Enterprise-scale distributed environment experience is preferred.
- Familiarity with AI/ML or LLM-based automation solutions is preferred.
- Exposure to observability tools such as Splunk, Datadog, or CloudWatch is preferred.
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