Senior/Principal Software Engineer - 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)

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design and develop authentication and authorization solutions for both Web and mobile applications


• Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including development, code reviews, testing and production deployment


• Work with product managers to understand the features, do technical assessment and costing, design, code, test and deploy


• Work with technical leads and security team to understand technical constraints and incorporate them into the design


• Support live-site with production debugging and track down causes and fix them in systematic ways


• Perform code review of the code produced by other engineers in the team

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:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience and training;


• 3+ years of experience with software development in one or more high-level general purpose programming languages (e.g. Java, Scala, C#, Python, Golang, etc)


• 3+ years of experience testing, maintaining, and/or deploying software products


• 1+ years of experience in technical design of software products and components

Preferred Qualiifcations:

• 1+ years of experience with distributed systems and application design in a SOA environment


• 2+ years of experience with production debugging and to track down causes and fix them in systematic ways


• Experience with authorization frameworks like OAuth 2.0, SAML or OpenID Connect


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


• Knowledge of Web security, authentication, and applied cryptography

UnitedHealth Group requires all new hires and employees to report their COVID-19 vaccination status.

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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