Senior Software Engineer

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.

As a Software Engineer on the EMR Team within the Provider Engagement Organization, you will contribute to the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of applications that facilitate clinical document acquisition and delivery between providers and payers.

Working closely with senior engineers, product partners, and business stakeholders, you will develop and maintain cloud-native services, APIs, and integrations that support claims auditing and provider engagement workflows. You will participate in Agile ceremonies, contribute to technical discussions, troubleshoot issues, and help improve software quality through testing and automation.

This role will provide opportunities to work with modern engineering practices, including DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, observability, and AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot. You will help deliver scalable solutions that enhance operational efficiency, improve user experiences, and support key business initiatives.

Software engineering is the application of engineering to the design, development, implementation, testing and maintenance of software in a systematic method. The roles in this function will cover all primary development activity across all technology functions that ensure we deliver code with high quality for our applications, products and services and to understand customer needs and to develop product roadmaps.

These roles include, but are not limited to analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, standards, methods, tools analysis, documentation, research and development, maintenance, new development, operations and delivery. With every role in the company, each position has a requirement for building quality into every output. This also includes evaluating new tools, new techniques, strategies; Automation of common tasks; build of common utilities to drive organizational efficiency with a passion around technology and solutions and influence of thought and leadership on future capabilities and opportunities to apply technology in new and innovative ways. Generally work is self-directed and not prescribed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Works with less structured, more complex issues
• Serves as a resource to others.
• 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:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic and motivated software engineer with a strong desire to learn, solve problems, and deliver business value through technology. Candidates should have 1-3+ years of professional software development experience and hands-on coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, C#, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript. A willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to evolving business needs is essential
• Candidates should possess a solid understanding of software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, unit testing, source control, code reviews, and Agile development practices. Experience developing REST APIs, working with relational databases, and participating in cloud-based or modern application development projects is preferred.
• Exposure to technologies such as cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines, containerization, Infrastructure as Code, messaging systems, application monitoring, or AI-assisted development tools is beneficial but not required. Experience with healthcare technology, claims processing, clinical document workflows, or enterprise applications is considered a plus
• The successful candidate will demonstrate strong communication skills, collaboration, attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively within a team while delivering high-quality software solutions in a fast-paced environment

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.