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Associate Software Engineer

Optum
Full-time
Remote friendly (Richmond, British Columbia, Canada)
Canada
$49,000 - $102,000 USD yearly
Software/ IT

This position follows a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Contributes to the plans associated with the software development of features. Executes the design, development, deployment, and operation of cloud-based services. Contributes to prioritization of new features versus technical debt resolution
  • Hold high standards in writing quality scalable and supportable code, complete with appropriate unit tests, automated testing, documentation, and operationalization aspects in a CI/CD environment
  • Creation of documentation and adhering to standards
  • Provides technical leadership to implement new functionality and improvements to existing implementations
  • Provides training and mentoring to other team members in areas of expertise
  • Interface with user representatives or other engineering groups to define requirements and/or necessary modifications when required
  • Proactively collaborates with other teams to resolve roadblocks and ensure smooth delivery
  • Lead by example and use your technical expertise and perspective to drive innovation
  • Continuously identify and highlight areas of improvement that will grow a team to be more responsive and adaptable to changes
  • To be part of on call rotation to support production issues

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

Required Qualifications:

  • High School Diploma/GED (or higher)
  • 2+ years of professional software development experience in building complex, highly scalable, performant, secure, reliable software systems and tools, ideally within a cloud-native environment
  • 1+ years of hand-on experience with any programming language preferably C# and .NET.,
  • 1+ years of experience with any Databases – NoSQL such as Couchbase, NGINX or similar

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Experience in the healthcare industry working with DICOM, HL7, FHIR
  • Experience designing, creating, and securing APIs; Web Services (REST/JSON), OAuth, JWT, WS-Security, SAML
  • Experience with React
  • Intermediate level of knowledge of Public Cloud (AWS, GCP or Azure)
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architecture
  • Knowledge and experience working with Docker, Kubernetes
  • Understanding of data modeling and database theory (ACID, CAP etc.)
  • Sharp analytical abilities and proven design skills
  • Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment