As a Senior Software Engineer (Java) you will be a fundamental part of a delivery project, leading one of our scrum teams within the Provider Tech space in Dublin. You will be working with a very technical piece of architecture and will collaborate with internal IT Specialists and strategic partners through all phases of the development life-cycle. 

Primary Responsibilities:  

• Perform all phases of software engineering including; requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing 
• Design and implement performance and operational enhancements 
• Design & Develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity 
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvement
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines 
• Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases
• Work with a team of software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project 
• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and design solutions as required 
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software, whilst enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business requirements 
• Work very closely with architecture groups to drive software solutions 
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership 
• Collaborate on design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the scrum team 
• Provide on call support in rotation with team for DevOps service for 24/7 mission critical systems

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Experience building backend services with Java using Spring Framework (Boot, Core, MVC), Spring Boot strongly preferred
• Experience with public cloud services (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Experience building modular, testable, and reusable software 
• Experience building and integrating with internal and external RESTful services
• Experience using testing tools such as JUnit or Cucumber 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Kafka highly preferred or equivalent queuing technologies (such as RabbitMQ)
• Cassandra
• AWS experience
• Relational Database knowledge
• Terraform, Jenkins, Helm
• Software development methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.