Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. UnitedHealth Group is a global organization that delivers care through technology to improve health outcomes. They are seeking a Software Engineer to design and deliver scalable microservices while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance healthcare technology solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain full stack applications using Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and modern frameworks
- Build event-driven microservices using Kafka (producers/consumers, topics, partitions, consumer groups, schema evolution)
- Develop cloud-native solutions on AWS (e.g., ECS/EKS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, CloudWatch)
- Implement and optimize data access across SQL (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB/MongoDB) stores
- Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions (build, test, security scans, deployments)
- Ensure high quality via automated unit/integration tests, contract testing, performance testing, and observability
- Collaborate with products, UX, QA, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end features
- Apply AI/ML-assisted development practices in SDLC
- Use AI tools to accelerate coding, refactoring, documentation, and test generation while maintaining engineering standards
- Improve code review quality (static analysis + AI-assisted insights), reduce defects, and streamline incident response
- Monitoring and supporting critical business applications using modern tools like Splunk and Dynatrace etc
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in CS or IT related field
- 4+ years of software development experience with OOP, design patterns, concurrency, performance, and debugging
- 3+ years of experience with CI/CD using Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions
- 3+ years of experience in one or more monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana and Dynatrace
- 2+ years of hands-on experience deploying/operating workloads on cloud preferably AWS
- 2+ years of experience with Java
- 2+ years of experience with Spring Boot (microservices, REST, security, data access, configuration)
- 6+ months of experience understanding relational databases and NoSQL data modeling
- Proven excellent communication and collaboration skills
- 2+ years of experience with Kafka (or similar messaging systems) in production
Benefits
- A comprehensive benefits package
- Incentive and recognition programs
- Equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)
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