Senior Software & DevOps Engineer — Remote (US)

Optum; Minnetonka (MN); Hybrid; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401(k)

Job summary

Optum Tech, a unit of Optum, seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and support critical rules applications in production. The role emphasizes cloud-native architecture, REST/GraphQL APIs, and secure, scalable systems in a healthcare context.

You will collaborate with architects, operations, and interfacing teams, ensuring high availability and robust deployment pipelines while leveraging AI-assisted tooling for code quality and productivity.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of IT experience with focus on application engineering and production operations.
• Hands-on experience designing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting applications in production.
• Cloud platforms, APIs, event-driven automation, and integration patterns.
• Java, Maven, XML, REST APIs, microservices, and web services.

Responsibilities

• Developing and managing business rules in IBM ODM (rule authoring, decision tables, ruleflow maintenance).
• Design and build REST and GraphQL APIs in Java.
• Deploying services on Kubernetes-based platforms with configuration, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• Setting up deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions and CI/CD tooling.
• Write unit tests with high code coverage and integrate static/dynamic analysis.

Skills

Java

REST APIs

Microservices

SQL

NoSQL

Python

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Kafka

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kafka

MySQL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Optum Tech, a unit of Optum, seeks an experienced software engineer to design, develop, and support critical rules applications in production. The role emphasizes cloud-native architecture, REST/GraphQL APIs, and secure, scalable systems in a healthcare context.

You will collaborate with architects, operations, and interfacing teams, ensuring high availability and robust deployment pipelines while leveraging AI-assisted tooling for code quality and productivity.