Software Engineer - Remote

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care's most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams' work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
• Continues to receive guidance on own code reviews primarily around solution refinement rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
• Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
• Solves more complex problems. APIs/Data Structures/ Algorithms/Application sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable, and performant
• Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
• Leaves code in a better state than they found it
• In alignment with sprint and program goals, choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt
• Incorporates automation in test, build, and deploy processes to drive team efficiency
• Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes
• Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alerting into the definition of done
• Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket resolution
• Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components
• Understands most common security threats and patterns at both the application layer and infrastructure layers and delivers solutions devoid of them
• Works with Product Management to ensure Stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
• Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on-time completion
• Helps to unblock the team when there a blockages
• Limits work in progress by shipping features/deploying software often
• Decomposes Features into manageable stories/tasks
• Considers the User Experience, business impact, and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
• Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
• Understands business/financial impact of stability and resiliency
• Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements

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 Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• 5+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
• 4+ years of experience in Java Programming (Solid Java Knowledge) and Spring boot
• 4+ years of experience with MongoDB, Kafka
• 4+ years of working experience in set up or maintenance of CI or CD pipeline (GitHub Actions)
• 4+ years of experience with building microservices
• 3+ years of working with modern Front-End technologies like React
• 3+ years of experience with Splunk, Dynatrace
• 3+ years of production support experience
• 3+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
• 2+ years of experience with AWS, Terraform and EKS
• 6+ months of experience with building AI Agents/Agentic Workflows

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building robust, consumer-facing software cloud-native applications
• Experience with security reviews
• Proven solid communication skills to articulate technical concepts to other engineers and non-technical stakeholders
• Proven solid infrastructure as code experience Terraform
• Proven solid governance / change management mindset, ideally with experience in data privacy / risk management

*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 $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

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.

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.