We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is both a hands-on coder and a technical leader. You'll design and implement domain-driven architectures, build scalable microservices, and deliver secure, cloud-native solutions on Azure. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong design skills, and the ability to mentor teams while driving engineering excellence across CI/CD, Terraform, and modern development practices.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Architect and implement domain-driven solutions: Define bounded contexts, aggregates, and integration patterns
- Develop high-quality services: Build Java (Java 17+) / Spring Boot microservices with clean APIs and robust testing
- Cloud engineering: Deploy and optimize workloads on Azure (AKS, App Service, Functions, Event Hubs, Service Bus, Key Vault)
- Infrastructure as Code: Author Terraform modules and manage multi-environment deployments
- CI/CD leadership: Implement secure pipelines with automated testing, artifact integrity, and progressive delivery
- Security and compliance: Apply zero-trust principles, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation
- Data and messaging: Design schemas and event-driven flows with Kafka/Event Hubs ensuring reliability and observability
- Mentorship and collaboration: Guide engineers through design reviews, code quality improvements, and best practices
- 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
Required Qualifications:
- 10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in architecture or technical leadership roles
- Hands-on experience with Azure services, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
- Solid expertise in Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and domain-driven design
- Solid understanding of security, compliance, and performance optimization
- Proficiency in Kubernetes, container orchestration, and observability practices
- Comfortable coding daily and troubleshooting complex production issues
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in healthcare payment systems and HIPAA/PHI compliance
- Experience or knowledge in multi-region architecture, disaster recovery, and chaos engineering
- Experience or knowledge in FinOps and cost optimization strategies
- Experience or knowledge in contributions to open source or technical community
Ways of Working
- Agile delivery with iterative releases and continuous feedback
- Operational mindset with on-call participation and postmortem culture
- Champion simplicity, scalability, and measurable outcomes
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.
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What We Do
We’re the health care technology and innovation company of the UnitedHealth Group enterprise along with UnitedHealthcare. We’re a global organization that’s evolving health care so everyone can have the opportunity to live their healthiest life. With our hands across all aspects of health, we'll provide you with a rewarding career that enables you to grow in the directions that best fit your passions. This is your opportunity to be part of a team that’s dedicated to Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
Our global technology team consists of more than 30,000 innovators from around the world passionate about using technology to improve the lives of people and communities. We are modernizing the health care system through modern analytics, comprehensive clinical expertise, innovative technologies and extensive experience in improving operational and clinical performance.
As part of our team, you will be provided opportunities to channel your curiosity into initiative, working alongside distinguished engineers and developers pursuing innovations that improve the health care experience for everyone. We encourage you to dive in, explore and ask questions about creative ways to use technology to help make the health care system work like an actual system.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business, the responsibilities of a job, and your preference for more flexibility. These models are core on-site 5 days/week, hybrid 3 day/s week and telecommute or fully remote.
