Project Details: The Coaching platform offers preventive programs that help participants significantly improve their health. Some examples from our portfolio of programs are a smoke cessation, a weight loss, and a hypertension program. Users have access to coaches through calls and text messaging, read state of the art material about well-being, attend classes, and more.
From the technical perspective the platform has a web portal, mobile applications, many backend services, and integrations with external partners. Our microservices and APIs therefore support a wide range of use-cases for the different types of clients.
Primary Responsibilities:
As part of our Optum Digital Coaching team, in this role you will play a significant part in solutioning, designing, and developing digital software components used across multiple member-facing portals. You will work in an Agile Scrum environment, collaborating closely with the business product management and members of a global engineering team. You will apply your skills in a highly dynamic, innovative, forward-thinking environment that follows industry best practices and fosters engineering culture.
A qualified candidate is a seasoned engineer with solid Scala development experience, advanced knowledge of modern frameworks, strong software integration experience and experience with defining technical solutions. He/she will develop application code hands-on and collaborate with the Platform Architect and stakeholders to define innovative digital solutions. Day-to-day responsibilities include:
• Collaborate with product and IT stakeholders to build understanding of systems or RESTful APIs involved in integrations
• Demonstrate strong interest in application architecture and solution design
• Recommend complex integrated solutions that fulfill business requirements and align with technology roadmaps
• Design and develop product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
• Contribute to defining technical road maps; identify technical improvement and refactoring opportunities
• Ensure that all delivered solutions adhere to industry best-practices for scalability, maintainability, usability, availability, extensibility, security, and portability
• Work with geographically distributed Agile teams
• Work with product owners, product managers, and other stakeholders to groom & solution features
• Provide accurate and timely estimates for features, user stories, and tasks
• Identify and implement innovative solutions to non-standard requests and problems
• Participate in code reviews and adhere to best practices
• Be aware of current security trends, tools, and requirements
• Provide input to planning activities
• Participate in rotational on-call schedules as needed
• Work outside of standard office hours as needed and, on occasion, support night-time releases
Required Skills:
Bachelors or equivalent degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field
Software solutioning and integration experience
5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Scala, Java, C# and modern back-end development frameworks, such as Play, Spring
Minimum 2 Years of Scala Experience or experience with the functional programming paradigm in other languages (e.g., Java Stream API)
3+ years of experience with REST APIs and MicroServices
Working experience with CI/CD pipelines
Minimum 2 years of Experience with relational Databases.
Good written and oral communication Skills.
Of the required skills listed, which would you consider the top 3? Please list your expectations regarding years of experience for each requirement.
1. 5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Scala, Java, C# and modern back-end development frameworks, such as Play, Spring
2. Minimum 2 Years of Scala Experience or experience with the functional programming paradigm in other languages (e.g., Java Stream API
3. 3+ years of experience with REST APIs and MicroServices
Preferred Skill Set: (set candidates apart)
Full-stack engineering experience
Working knowledge of Agile development lifecycle and Jira tool
Advanced communication skills; the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts
The ability to successfully manage work priorities in a dynamic, high-demand environment
Experience with github versioning tool
Experience with mocking framework such as mockito
Experience with Message queue platform such as RabbitMQ, Kafka
Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with 3rd party APIs Integration
Experience with IntelliJ Code Editor
Required Skills : 1. 5+ years of hands-on experience with programming languages such as Scala, Java, C# and modern back-end development frameworks, such as (akka OR akkastream OR alpakka OR "play" OR BlueEyes OR chaos OR finch OR colossus OR spray) 2. Minimum 2 Years of Scala Experience required OR must have functional programming experience with Java. 3. 3+ years of experience with REST APIs and MicroServices
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Architecture/Design
Master Job Title :Dev: Java
Branch Code :Minneapolis