Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform - Telecommute

Careers at Rally Health, part of the Optum and UnitedHealth Group family of businesses. Our mission at Rally® is to empower individuals to take control of their health through personalized, data-driven health care information and recommendations that lead to better outcomes. We leverage our digital platform and leading-edge technology to make health care data accessible wherever and whenever people need it, all while ensuring safety and reliability. Here, you'll help people find the right doctors, give them a clear breakdown of costs, incentivize them to stay focused on their overall health with daily goals, and help them earn rewards such as discounts on a wide range of goods as well as bonuses for reaching fitness objectives. As part of our Rally® team, you'll have the opportunity to drive change with an innovative healthcare technology company that is dedicated to creating a culture of healthy living. Help us bring real change to healthcare and you'll experience what it's like to do your life's best work.(sm)

Join Rally Health as a Principal Software Engineer, Data Platform where you will architect and develop infrastructure for our Data Team. As part of the Data Team, you will report to a Data Manager and work with teams across the company. We recognize that people come from diverse backgrounds and skills and welcome all to apply.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy infrastructure on which data gets collected, aggregated moved, cleansed and transformed


• Operationalize data insights - from research into fault-tolerant, production-scale deployments


• Apply perseverance and imagination, both in writing new software and also deploying existing tools like Airflow, Hadoop, Spark, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes and Mesos


• Partner with data scientists and product team to understand their needs and create a platform that empowers them


• Work with Product and Project Managers to understand the features, do technical assessment, design, code test and deliver

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• BS in Computer Science, Engineering or a related technical role or equivalent experience


• 8+ years of prior software development experience


• Coding experience shipping complex software to production


• Command of Scala, Python or Java, or interest in learning Scala


• Experience with Kafka, Spark, Hive, HDFS, AirFlow, SQL


• Command of data structures, algorithms, performance and scalability


• Understanding of fault-tolerant systems, network programming, multithreaded programming and security


• Experience with distributed systems and application design in a SOA environment


• Knowledge of high-scale performance and optimization tools and techniques


• Experience with AWS (configuring, deploying, managing) services and distributed applications

Careers with Optum. Here's the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. So when it comes to how we use the world's large accumulation of health-related information, or guide health and lifestyle choices or manage pharmacy benefits for millions, our first goal is to leap beyond the status quo and uncover new ways to serve. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Optum, incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life's best work.(sm)

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.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.

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