Senior Software Engineer, AI-Driven Cloud Services

Taleo; Minnetonka (MN); Remote; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Claims Global Claims Operations team. You will design, build, and deploy scalable AI-enabled backend services on AWS, collaborating with product managers, AI engineers, and business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, DevOps, and responsible AI, with opportunities to mentor peers and influence technology strategy. Remote work within the U.S. is supported.

Qualifications

• 4 years of full-stack engineering experience with backend and frontend.
• 4 years of experience applying software engineering principles, design patterns, scalability, reliability, observability, and secure coding practices
• 4 years of hands-on experience in Python development, including scalable RESTful APIs and microservices architecture
• 4 years of experience with React.js and modern frontend development frameworks and practices
• 4 years of experience working on AWS cloud platform, including compute, storage, networking, IAM, monitoring, and security services
• 3 years of experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), Kubernetes, and DevOps practices
• 3 years of experience designing and developing distributed, event-driven applications in enterprise environments
• 2 years of experience leading technical discussions, driving solution design, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders
• 6 months years of experience integrating AI/ML models, GenAI services, or intelligent automation capabilities into production applications

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable enterprise-grade applications supporting AI and claims automation use cases
• Build high-performance backend services and APIs for AI-assisted workflows, intelligent decision systems, and orchestration platforms
• Implement reusable components, design patterns, and secure coding practices across the application stack
• Lead design discussions, code reviews, and technical solutioning sessions
• Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices
• Contribute to architecture reviews, governance processes, and technology strategy
• Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, AI engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Architect, develop, and deploy applications on AWS (Lambda, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, S3, DynamoDB, Aurora, Bedrock, SageMaker)
• Design event-driven and microservices architectures for scalable AI workloads
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, security, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins
• Implement automated testing strategies including unit, integration, API, and end-to-end testing
• Adopt DevOps and LLMOps best practices for model deployment, monitoring, observability, and lifecycle management
• Improve system availability, fault tolerance, and operational excellence through monitoring and alerting frameworks
• Develop APIs and services supporting document ingestion, knowledge management, vector search, and workflow execution
• Design and optimize SQL/NoSQL, Vector Databases, Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Search for transactional and AI-driven workloads
• Enable integration with enterprise systems, claims platforms, and external healthcare services
• Support data validation, monitoring, and governance requirements for AI solutions
• Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AIac

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Backend development

Python development

React.js

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Technical leadership

AI/ML integration

DevOps

Security practices

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the Claims Global Claims Operations team. You will design, build, and deploy scalable AI-enabled backend services on AWS, collaborating with product managers, AI engineers, and business stakeholders.

The role emphasizes cloud architecture, DevOps, and responsible AI, with opportunities to mentor peers and influence technology strategy. Remote work within the U.S. is supported.