The Role
Lead design and delivery of scalable, production-grade full stack solutions with AI/ML integration. Guide technical architecture, mentor engineers, manage stakeholders, and own end-to-end development, deployment, and continuous improvement of enterprise healthcare products.
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Requisition Number: 2362185
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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
This role is for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who has a comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle. The primary responsibilities include guiding the team on the technical model and the overall solution, and acting as a liaison between Architecture, Product, and Technology teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
This role demands a proactive and innovative approach, leveraging AI and advanced technologies to drive excellence and deliver outstanding solutions.
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualification:
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.
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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
This role is for a Senior Full Stack Engineer who has a comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle. The primary responsibilities include guiding the team on the technical model and the overall solution, and acting as a liaison between Architecture, Product, and Technology teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, Partner Solution Architects, and Technical Architects to ensure reliable and accurate solutions that meet client outcomes
- Communicate new product and solution requirements to the solution development and management team
- Lead the team towards technical accomplishments, fostering collaborative efforts and achieving critical project goals
- Independently communicate with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project priorities and deadlines
- Perform analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, and documentation tasks
- Enhance existing products and create new offerings utilizing the latest technology
- Build and lead a product development team to deliver projects that meet business objectives and solve critical user problems
- Collaborate with key leaders to develop strategic projects, streamline decision-making, and manage the engineering team
- Act as a technical leader, managing code reviews, post-project analysis, and articulating project success factors
- Provide leadership for planning, recruiting, and managing a world-class technology, product development, and application engineering team
- Continuously assess and redesign processes to ensure they are repeatable, sustainable, and scalable
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so
This role demands a proactive and innovative approach, leveraging AI and advanced technologies to drive excellence and deliver outstanding solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- Experience: 8+ years of hands-on software development, with a strong focus on end-to-end solution development, driving scalable, high-performance systems
- AI/ML: Extensive experience building machine learning models, data pipelines, and deploying AI/ML-driven products, with practical knowledge of algorithms and optimization
- Skills: Expert in modern programming languages (Java, Python, C++), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), and AI/ML integration into production-grade applications
- Solution Development: Proven track record of designing and delivering innovative, enterprise-level solutions that align with business goals and technical requirements, including AI-powered features
- Tools: Advanced proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), databases (SQL/NoSQL), and modern testing methodologies
- Soft Skills: Proven exceptional problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, capable of collaborating across teams to solve complex technical challenges
- Leadership: Proven solid leadership abilities, managing cross-functional teams, providing mentorship to junior engineers, and overseeing project delivery from concept to deployment
Preferred Qualification:
- Advanced AI certifications, DevOps
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.
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
- 8+ years hands-on software development experience
- End-to-end solution development of scalable, high-performance systems
- Extensive experience building machine learning models, data pipelines, and deploying AI/ML-driven products
- Expertise in Java, Python, and C++
- Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, GCP, Azure
- Proven track record designing and delivering enterprise-level solutions, including AI-powered features
- Advanced proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), and modern testing methodologies
- Experience with databases (SQL and NoSQL)
- Strong problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and mentoring junior engineers
- Advanced AI certifications
- DevOps experience
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues each pay period with eight paid U.S. holidays plus a floating holiday, and generous time away is consistently emphasized. This breadth supports planned and unplanned time off beyond standard vacation days.
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Parental & Family Support — Six weeks of paid parental leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, Bright Horizons back‑up care, and adoption assistance signal strong family-oriented support. EAP access with counseling sessions further extends help to employees and their households.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, Calm app membership, tuition reimbursement, commuter and FSA accounts, and broad employee discounts expand everyday wellbeing resources. Free or low‑cost virtual visits complement these lifestyle supports.
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Optum Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
Typical time on-site:
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