Software Engineer – Go lang
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Compassion. It’s the starting point for health care providers like you and it’s what drives us every day as we put our exceptional skills together with a real feeling of caring for others. This is a place where your impact goes beyond providing care one patient at a time. Because here, every day, you’re also providing leadership and contributing in ways that can affect millions for years to come. Ready for a new path? Learn more, and start doing your life’s best work.SM
Our teams are helping people from around the world. We can bring out your best as you put your listening, analytical and problem solving skills to work in a setting that is geared to helping improve lives and enhance health care for millions. Here, you’ll discover a wealth of pathways for professional growth within Customer Service, Billing, Claims, Enrollment & Eligibility and across our global economy. Join us and find out why this is the place to do your life’s best work.SM
Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Join a development team to perform all phases of software engineering including requirements analysis, application design, code development and testing
- Own the build/deploy/release process and find ways to automate and improve our pipeline at every step
- Design reusable components, frameworks, and libraries
- Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and improving performance
- Participate in an Agile / Scrum / Kanban methodology to deliver high-quality software releases every 2 weeks
- Mentor and guide other software engineers within the team
- Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enable team velocity
- Collaborate on the design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside the scrum team
- Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
- Basic, structured, standard approach to work
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years of Software Engineering experience
- Cloud: 1+ years of experience building and shipping production software in a scaled distributed environment in public cloud
- Databases: Experience with relational databases or non-relational databases
- DevOps: Experience with Docker and CI/CD tools/services
- Experience with Golang and related tools
- Proficiency with any Java or JavaScript-based UI framework
- Version Control: Proficiency with Git and GitHub
Preferred Qualifications:
- UI Frameworks: Experience with React/React Native, Angular, Blazor
- Databases: Experience with Microsoft SQL, DynamoDB
- Message Queue Systems: Experience with AWS SQS, RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka
- Testing Tools/Services/Frameworks: Knowledge of Playwright, Cucumber, SauceLabs, Cypress, Appium
- AI Integration: Knowledge and experience in integrating AI technologies into software engineering processes and products. Ability to leverage AI for improving development workflows, enhancing product features, and optimizing team performance
- Cloud: Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP
- Backend: Proficiency in GoLang, Rust, GraphQL, .NET, Java
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes – an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.
Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2025 Optum Global Solutions (Philippines) Inc. All rights reserved.
Additional Job Detail Information
Requisition Number 2306290
Business Segment Optum Global Advantage
Employee Status Regular
Travel No
Country: PH
Overtime Status Non-exempt
Schedule Full-time
Shift Evening Job
Telecommuter Position No
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