Senior Software Engineer: Enterprise AI & Cloud Solutions

Optum; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 92,000 - 164,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy high-performance software and AI-powered solutions for enterprise health benefits.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams, mentor engineers, and apply DevOps practices, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP) to modernize health benefit systems at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field and 4+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and deploying enterprise-grade applications.
• 3+ years of experience with Python, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
• 2+ years in Agile/Scrum environments and DevOps automation.
• 1+ years building AI-powered features, ML services, or AI workflows; experience with Docker/Kubernetes and cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable software applications and AI-powered solutions.
• Leverage enterprise AI tools to streamline workflows and automate tasks.
• Evaluate trends to inform solution design and architecture.
• Collaborate with cross-functional product, engineering, and data teams on requirements.
• Write clean, maintainable code and participate in reviews and architecture discussions.
• Troubleshoot, debug, and optimize performance in production environments and CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Python

Java

C#

TypeScript

Agile/Scrum

DevOps automation

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AWS

Azure

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Job description

UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy high-performance software and AI-powered solutions for enterprise health benefits.

You will collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams, mentor engineers, and apply DevOps practices, Docker/Kubernetes, and cloud services (AWS/Azure/GCP) to modernize health benefit systems at scale.