Senior Software Engineer AI-Powered Identity Risk (Remote)

Taleo; Basking Ridge (NJ); Remote; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Equity stock purchase

401k contribution

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Risk Platform within ESRO. You will build cloud-native Java/Spring Boot backends and React/TypeScript frontends, with AI-enabled automation to enhance identity risk and fraud detection.

This role emphasizes scalable architectures, security best practices, and modern CI/CD in a remote-friendly setup across the U.S. The team leverages Kafka data pipelines, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud services to deliver

Qualifications

• High School Diploma/GED
• 5+ years of full stack software engineering experience
• 2+ years of server-side microservice development with Java and Spring Boot
• 2+ years of event-driven architectures and data pipelines with Apache Kafka
• 2+ years AWS cloud services or similar and containerization platforms (Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform)
• 2+ years designing and optimizing relational databases (PostgreSQL)

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy scalable, cloud-native fullstack apps and microservices using Java, Spring Boot, React, Next.js, TypeScript
• Design and deploy AI-powered solutions for identity risk and fraud with responsible AI practices
• Leverage enterprise AI tools to streamline engineering workflows and automate tasks
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures and Kafka data pipelines for IRP, RemHub, and FRED
• Design and manage relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL) for high-throughput identity data diagnostics
• Collaborate with UI/UX, product, and security teams to build risk investigation portals
• Evaluate emerging tech trends to inform system architecture and platform evolution
• Maintain code quality, security, CI/CD, and cloud infra with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform

Skills

Full stack

Java & Spring

Kafka

AWS

PostgreSQL

Education

Bachelor’s degree (CS/related)

High School Diploma

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

React

TypeScript

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

UnitedHealth Group is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to join the Identity Risk Platform within ESRO. You will build cloud-native Java/Spring Boot backends and React/TypeScript frontends, with AI-enabled automation to enhance identity risk and fraud detection.

This role emphasizes scalable architectures, security best practices, and modern CI/CD in a remote-friendly setup across the U.S. The team leverages Kafka data pipelines, Kubernetes, Terraform, and cloud services to deliver