Senior Software Engineer II

Requisition Number: 2364559
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.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide senior-level technical leadership as a hands-on (player/coach) Lead Software Engineer, owning end-to-end delivery across the product lifecycle including architecture, design, development, testing, deployment, and long-term maintainability
• Lead and influence technical design decisions to deliver scalable, secure, and highly available systems while balancing functional and non-functional requirements
• Act as a hands-on individual contributor, directly responsible for designing, developing, and delivering complex features, services, and platforms
• Write high-quality, well-tested, production-ready code and continuously raise the engineering bar through rigorous code reviews and enforcement of best practices
• Take ownership of complex problem solving, performance optimization, reliability improvements, and remediation of critical production issues
• Partner closely with Product, Architecture, QA, Security, and DevOps teams to translate business needs into well-defined, estimable technical solutions
• Actively participate in Agile planning and execution, driving improvements in delivery predictability, quality, and time-to-value
• Mentor and coach engineers through hands-on technical guidance, design reviews, pair programming, and code-level feedback to elevate overall technical maturity
• Serve as an escalation point for complex technical issues, architectural risks, and cross-team dependencies
• Drive technical excellence initiatives such as reducing technical debt, improving system resilience, and strengthening observability and operational readiness
• Continuously evaluate and adopt modern tools, frameworks, automation, and AI-assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity, reliability, and scalability
• 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:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, with a solid focus on modern web application development
• Solid experience with relational database management systems and advanced SQL, including schema design, indexing strategies, query optimization, and performance tuning
• Experience building, deploying, and operating applications on cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure; ability to design cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, with Terraform proficiency required for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure
• Working knowledge of big data or data pipeline development (batch or streaming) is a strong added advantage
• Solid understanding of application security, scalability, observability, and production readiness best practices
• Solid understanding of domain-driven design (DDD) and domain modelling techniques to translate business problems into robust technical solutions
• Proven expertise in .NET / C#-based application development; experience designing and building scalable, production-grade web services and APIs
• Demonstrated ability to work as a hands-on individual contributor while leading technical outcomes, influencing architecture and mentoring other engineers
• Proven excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate complex systems, technical trade-offs, and ambiguous requirements
• Proven solid communication skills to effectively collaborate with product managers, architects, and cross-functional stakeholders across geographies

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.