Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Developer - Broomfield, CO - Full-time / Part-time

Transform health care and change the way consumers engage with technology.

Sounds like a big challenge, right? Here, at Optum, you have the opportunity to achieve great things while you showcase your passion and technical expertise as a Full-Stack Ruby on Rails Applications Developer. You'll be inspired by working alongside some of the most brilliant minds in technology who bring compassion, energy and focus to their work every day on a mission to change health care as we know it. Join us! Come share who you are and start doing your life's best work.(SM)

As part of our development team, you will predominantly be involved in building business solutions by creating new and modifying existing software applications. You'll stretch your skills and grow your careers as a primary contributor in designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting all types of applications consistent with the established specifications and business requirements in order to deliver business value. This is a unique development role where your strong full-stack expertise and experience building complex public-facing web applications will enhance our Consumer Engagement Platform. We are looking for candidates who are knowledgeable of all layers of application development including system and database architecture, API development, and building JavaScript driven front-end interfaces. In this role, you will be expected to contribute to designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting applications meeting design specifications and business requirements to deliver business value.

To be successful in this position, you must be a self-starter and enjoy working with a highly collaborative team in a fast paced environment while managing multiple, concurrent tasks.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Feature development and defect resolution following acceptance criteria from user stories
  
• Write unit and functional tests for all new features and add tests where additional coverage is needed for existing features
  
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of our applications including regular, incremental refactoring
  
• Collaborate with the team on code design and decision-making
  
• Stay current on emerging technologies, trends and standards, browser capabilities, and accessibility issues

Required Qualifications:

• Strong Model/View/Controller implementation expertise
  
• Proficient with Ruby on Rails (3+ years)
  
• Strong software engineering skills including writing and consuming REST based API's
  
• Experience with 1 or more testing frameworks (RSpec, Capybara, Cucumber, or Jasmine) (3+ years)
  
• Experience with schema design and query optimization for relational databases (MySQL/PostgreSQL) (3+ years)
  
• Experience working with version control systems; preferably Git
  
• Proficient with jQuery, Backbone.js, Angular.js, or similar (3+ years)
  
• Strong communication skills
  
• BA/BS degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with agile development (SCRUM, Kanban, etc.)
  
• Experience building font-end applications consuming web API's
  
• Experience with continuous integration tools (Jenkins) and deployment to multiple server environments
  
• Building and deploying large scale, cloud hosted web applications
  
• Experience working NoSQL/Document/Graph databases (MongoDB, Hadoop or similar)
  
• Healthcare industry experience

Technology Careers with Optum. Information and technology have amazing power to transform the health care industry and improve people's lives. This is where it's happening. This is where you'll help solve the problems that have never been solved. We're freeing information so it can be used safely and securely wherever it's needed. We're creating the very best ideas that can most easily be put into action to help our clients improve the quality of care and lower costs for millions. This is where the best and the brightest work together to make positive change a reality. This is the place to do your life's best work.SM
 

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: 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.

Job Keywords: Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Agile, SCRUM, Broomfield, CO, Colorado