[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @UnitedHealth Group

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer , you will provide technical leadership for ECDH development supporting URQP, a critical clinical quality initiative. You will lead and mentor a team of software developers building scalable solutions that process and deliver complex clinical data at enterprise scale.

This hands-on role combines software design and development with technical leadership and mentoring. You will:

• Design and build solutions while guiding software developers.
• Adapt quickly in a fast-paced and fluid environment.
• Use generative and agentic AI to accelerate development, testing, automation, and operational support.
• Partner with product, architecture, engineering, and business stakeholders to solve complex technical challenges and deliver reliable, high-quality solutions.

You will enjoy the flexibility to telecommute* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years of hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining applications in Azure, GCP or AWS
• 3+ years of experience in Python and Java
• 3+ years of experience with SQL/NoSQL databases
• 2+ years of experience with RESTful API development (FastAPI) and microservices architecture
• 1+ years of experience with containerization (Docker), Kubernetes orchestration
• 1+ experience utilizing AI development lifecycle (DLC) tools to optimize coding efficiency, test automation, and software delivery

Requirements

• Lead the design, development, deployment, and production support of scalable ECDH solutions supporting the URQP clinical quality initiative
• Lead and mentor a team of software developers, providing technical direction and fostering engineering excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement
• Provide expert-level hands-on development, including solution design, rapid prototyping, and proof-of-concept (POC) development to validate technical approaches and accelerate delivery
• Design and build data-intensive applications and services that process complex clinical and quality data at enterprise scale
• Apply generative and agentic AI to accelerate software development, testing, troubleshooting, automation, and operational workflows
• Remain hands-on across architecture, development, performance optimization, testing, deployment, and production support
• Establish and promote engineering practices for scalability, reliability, observability, automated testing, and CI/CD
• Partner with product owners, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate evolving requirements into pragmatic technical solutions
• Lead technical problem solving, identify risks and dependencies, and maintain delivery momentum in a fast-paced, fluid environment
• Communicate technical decisions, delivery status, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
• Evaluate emerging AI and software engineering technologies to improve ECDH development, delivery, and operations

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

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.