Remote Lead Software Engineer, Banking Microservices & AI

UnitedHealth Group; Santa Clara (CA); Remote; USD 113,000 - 193,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase program

401(k) contribution and incentive/awrd

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group, via Optum Bank Group, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and hands-on delivery for banking fintech systems in a 100% remote role. You will mentor, lead code reviews, and implement secure, scalable Java microservices while advancing AI-enabled automation and responsible AI practices.

In this role, you will collaborate with product, security, and business teams across the nationwide client base, ensuring reliability and compliance in financial services tech.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering with distributed systems.
• 4+ years backend microservices with Java and Spring Boot.
• 3+ years designing secure, high-volume RESTful APIs or distributed architectures.
• 2+ years with relational or NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB).
• 2+ years public cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• 2+ years as a technical lead, conducting code reviews and mentoring.
• 2+ years automated testing, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes).
• 1+ years designing/building/integrating apps with AI capabilities or GenAI APIs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for enterprise Java and Spring Boot banking microservices.
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions with responsible AI across banking platforms.
• Evaluate trends to inform solution design and strategic innovation in financial tech.
• Use enterprise AI tools to streamline workflows and automate tasks.
• Architect, build, and optimize scalable, secure RESTful APIs and distributed architectures.
• Establish and uphold standards, automated testing, patterns, and CI/CD pipelines for reliability.
• Lead architecture and code reviews to identify bottlenecks and security gaps.
• Partner with product, security, and stakeholders to translate business needs into roadmaps.
• Mentor engineers in a distributed remote environment.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

RESTful APIs

CI/CD

DevOps

Security & Compliance

Cloud Platforms

Mentoring

AI/GenAI in Banking

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in CS/SE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

UnitedHealth Group, via Optum Bank Group, seeks a Lead Software Engineer to drive architecture and hands-on delivery for banking fintech systems in a 100% remote role. You will mentor, lead code reviews, and implement secure, scalable Java microservices while advancing AI-enabled automation and responsible AI practices.

In this role, you will collaborate with product, security, and business teams across the nationwide client base, ensuring reliability and compliance in financial services tech.