Senior Software Engineer (ECDH, URQP)

About the role

Optum, part of UnitedHealth Group, is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The role provides technical leadership for ECDH development supporting URQP, a clinical quality initiative, leading and mentoring a team of software developers who build scalable solutions processing complex clinical data at enterprise scale. It combines hands-on software design and development with technical leadership and mentoring, and uses generative and agentic AI to speed up development, testing, automation and operational support. Telecommuting from anywhere in the U.S. is possible.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, deployment and production support of scalable ECDH solutions for the URQP initiative
• Lead and mentor a team of software developers, setting technical direction and fostering engineering excellence
• Provide hands-on development, including solution design, rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept work
• Build data-intensive applications and services handling complex clinical and quality data
• Apply generative and agentic AI to development, testing, troubleshooting, automation and operations
• Promote engineering practices for scalability, reliability, observability, automated testing and CI/CD
• Partner with product owners, architects, engineers and business stakeholders, and communicate technical decisions and risks clearly
• Evaluate emerging AI and software engineering technologies

Required profile

• 6+ years of software development experience
• 3+ years building, deploying and maintaining applications in Azure, GCP or AWS
• 3+ years with Python and Java
• 3+ years with SQL/NoSQL databases
• 2+ years with RESTful APIs (FastAPI) and microservices
• 1+ year with Docker and Kubernetes
• 1+ year using AI development lifecycle tools; preferred: hands-on AI/ML engineering and experience with AI agents or multi-agent systems

Required skills

• Python, Java, SQL/NoSQL
• Azure, GCP or AWS
• RESTful APIs (FastAPI), microservices, Docker, Kubernetes
• Preferred: AI/ML engineering, CI/CD, automated testing

What we offer

• Salary range of $91,700 to $163,700 annually for full-time employment
• Comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution
• Career development opportunities