Manager Software Engineering

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.

The Manager Software Engineering position is accountable to deliver the highest quality technology solutions for UHG or Optum next generation Claim Ops platforms, applications, and solutions.  As an integral member of the technology delivery team, the Mgr. Software Engineer will be a primary approver or leader of designing, coding, testing, debugging, documenting and supporting software applications consistent with established specifications and business requirements to deliver business value. This is a Tech leadership position and will be responsible for leading 1 or more scrum teams. The ideal candidate has 5+ years full-stack software engineering experience and proficiency in Microservices Architecture and must have 3+ years of experience leading teams.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Influences the team designs and solutions. Mentors software engineers through code reviews and hands-on design sessions
• Contributes meaningfully to code reviews of teams’ work, providing collaborative guidance in areas of strength
• Continues to receive guidance on own code reviews primarily around solution refinement rather than overall direction. Able to explain implementation decisions and push back appropriately
• Learns from feedback and applies to future deliverables
• Solves more complex problems. APIs or Data Structures or Algorithms or Application sequences are thoughtfully designed. Solutions are well integrated, testable, maintainable, and performant
• Appropriately leverages existing solutions and adapts for reuse
• Leaves code in a better state than they found it
• In alignment with sprint and program goals, choose refactor opportunities to drive down tech debt
• Incorporates automation in test, build, and deploy processes to drive team efficiency
• Introduces automation to replace repeated manual processes
• Incorporates proactive monitors, logging, and alerting into the definition of done
• Owns prioritization of technical debt discovered as part of ticket resolution
• Threat modeling and analysis performed on delivered components
• Understands most common security threats and patterns at both the application layer and infrastructure layers and delivers solutions devoid of them
• Works with Product Management to ensure Stories are well worded, have appropriate acceptance criteria and are sized appropriately
• Drives completion of deliverables that have dependencies on other people or teams ensuring an on-time completion
• Helps to unblock the team when there a blockages
• Limits work in progress by shipping features or deploying software often
• Decomposes Features into manageable stories or tasks
• Considers the User Experience, business impact, and solution objective when managing development and design of solutions
• Understands the financial implications of software (cost and benefits for both engineering and operations)
• Understands business or financial impact of stability and resiliency
• Spends time with users and delivers initiatives that drive value and NPS improvements
• 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:

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of experience with agile development methodologies
• 3+ years of experience with Test-Driven Development using automated testing frameworks
• 5+ years of experience in Java Programming (Strong Java Knowledge)
• 5+ years of experience ensuring code builds and deployments are properly processed through Continuous Integration or Continuous Deployment processes.
• 5+ years of experience with microservice development
• 3+ years of working with modern Front-End technologies like React
• 3+ years of experience or exposure to cloud technologies such as OpenShift, AWS, Azure
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka Streaming
• 3+ years of experience with logging or monitoring tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace, New Relic

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Degree in computer science or equivalent
• Healthcare domain knowledge
• Digital or Consumer focused application development
• Experience in building Agents or Agentic Workflow
• Azure experience

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.