Software Engineer

Requisition Number: 2393254
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.
We are seeking an early-career developer to join the ECAP engineering team and contribute across the full application lifecycle: development, production support, monitoring, incident resolution, and on-call activities. This role is suited to a recent graduate or a professional with up to two years of experience who can learn quickly, understand business needs, analyze issues, and take ownership through resolution.
Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop, enhance, test, document, and maintain ECAP application components under the guidance of senior engineers
• AI builder who can build agentic AI solutions for ECAP application wherever required
• Provide production support by monitoring applications and batch processes, investigating alerts and failures, restoring service, and documenting findings and corrective actions
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation, including support outside standard business hours when scheduled, and follow established incident, escalation, and communication procedures
• Analyze defects, logs, data, and process flows to identify root causes; implement durable fixes and preventive improvements
• Translate business and functional requirements into clear technical tasks, test scenarios, and reliable software changes
• Collaborate with business, quality engineering, infrastructure, operations, and dependent application teams to deliver end-to-end outcomes
• Apply coding, peer-review, version-control, release, security, and change-management standards; maintain accurate technical and operational documentation
• Continuously build knowledge of ECAP business processes, data flows, interfaces, batch schedules, and supporting technology platforms
• Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline; recent graduates are welcome to apply
• 3+ years of software development, application support, internship, or equivalent project experience
• Foundational programming and problem-solving skills, with working knowledge of data structures, debugging, relational databases, and SQL
• Demonstrated ability to analyze information, understand business requirements, communicate clearly, and work effectively within a delivery and support team
• Willingness and ability to learn ECAP-specific technologies and participate in production support and on-call responsibilities

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.