Senior Developer - UnitedHealth Group - Optum Labs - Cambridge, MA - Full-time / Part-time

No industry is moving faster than health care. And no organization is better positioned to lead health care forward. We need attention to every detail with an eye for the points no one has considered. The rewards for performance are significant. You'll help improve the health of millions.

Optum Labs is the health care industry's first open research and innovation facility, designed solely around the goal of improving patient care. Optum Labs is a groundbreaking concept that fosters collaboration spanning industry lines. We bring together information assets, technologies and scientific expertise of leaders from across our industry, providing world class repository of health data. Optum Labs offers a unique place to exchange ideas, conduct research, and create capabilities that can benefit patient care today, while contributing to the ongoing improvement of the health care system for years to come.

Optum Labs engages all health care participants to draw from the broadest possible range of perspectives, expertise and information - including evidenced-based medicine, actionable, and translational research - to deliver innovative ideas, solutions and tools that make health care work better. We create a place for participants from across the health system to fund and directly participate in research that they might not have the resources or support to conduct individually.

This role will build products for Optum Labs Data as a Product offering. Optum Labs complex technology offering includes Lab Power tools (e.g. Natural History of Disease), analytic tools (R, SQL studio), virtual desktop interfaces and virtual sandboxes, back-end database and data analytics (in-database, Rev-R).   The data offering is equally complex including data from Optum, AARP, Mayo and several other potential partners.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Solves complex problems and develops innovative solutions


• Build and develop software applications that accelerate research and development of our Partners leveraging Optum Labs Data


• Build the libraries and frameworks that support applications and reusable interfaces to access Optum Labs Data


• Write client-side code for web-based applications, create fast, easy-to-use, high volume production applications, and develop prototypes quickly


• Provides explanations and information to others on the most complex issues

Required Qualifications: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent technical degree


• 3+ years relevant work experience


• Programming experience in Java,  Ruby and or Python


• Programming experience in SQL is a must


• Experience with Agile software development


• Familiarity with of UI frameworks (Bootstrap, Angular.js etc.) MVP application design


• Familiarity with NOSQL data-base driven applications is a plus


• Solid foundation in computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms and software design for data-driven applications


• Experience with private and public cloud virtualization

Already Fortune 25, we are totally focused on innovation and change. We work a little harder. We aim a little higher. We expect more from ourselves and each other. And at the end of the day, we're doing a lot of good.



Through our family of businesses and a lot of inspired individuals, we're building a high-performance health care system that works better for more people in more ways than ever. Now we're looking to reinforce our team with people who are decisive, brilliant - and built for speed.



Come to UnitedHealth Group, and share your ideas and your passion for doing more. We have roles that will fit your skills and knowledge. We have diverse opportunities that will fit your dreams.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment. In addition, employees in certain positions are subject to random drug testing.

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