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Company Overview

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. Join us to help advance health optimization on a global scale through Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to drive the design, development, and evolution of scalable backend platforms. In this role, you will provide software delivery across a product-driven team, with hands-on with implementation.

You will partner closely with product managers, engineering leaders, architects, and other engineers to shape strategy, guide execution of complex initiatives, and ensure delivery of high-quality, scalable, secure, and reliable software solutions. You will innovate and maintain engineering standards, mentor junior engineers and help advance the Java and Spring Boot microservices ecosystem within an agile scrum environment.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on meaningful and complex technology challenges.

Primary Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

• Lead the design of distributed, scalable systems and microservices architectures
• Define service boundaries, APIs, integration patterns, and asynchronous/event-driven approaches

Technical Contributions

• Work on complex problem-solving initiatives and engineering execution
• Mentor junior engineers, review technical designs, and promote strong software engineering practices

Engineering Standards & Platform Practices

• Establish reusable patterns, standards, shared components, and development guardrails
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices, automation-first delivery, and continuous improvement

Cloud & Distributed Systems

• Drive cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
• Lead microservices, containerization, Kubernetes, and platform engineering initiatives
• Design for scalability, resilience, performance, and cost-conscious operations

DevOps & Delivery Excellence

• Lead CI/CD pipeline improvements, release automation, and deployment reliability
• Improve engineering productivity through standardized tooling, automation, and delivery metrics

Reliability & Observability

• Ensure production readiness through monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards.
• Drive diagnostics, incident prevention, root-cause analysis, and operational excellence practices.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI 

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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Science or technology
• 4 years of Proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer, Senior Backend Engineer, or similar hands-on engineering role
• 4 years of Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend service development
• 4 years of experience with system design, distributed systems, API design, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures
• 4 years of Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• 4 years of Experience with CI/CD, DevOps tooling, release automation, and modern software delivery practices

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of scalability, performance, reliability, observability, production troubleshooting, and secure software engineering practices-Recommend moving this to preferred
• Ability to mentor junior engineers, influence technical direction, and make high-impact decisions in ambiguous environments-Recommend moving this to preferred
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes
• Experience with platform engineering, shared services, reusable frameworks, or developer productivity initiatives
• Exposure to AI/ML, conversational systems, contact center platforms, or enterprise integrations
• Experience working in agile scrum teams with product managers, architects, engineering leaders, and cross-functional partners
• Exposure of Healthcare domain(good to have)

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.  

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

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.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and 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.

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