At UnitedHealthcare, we’re simplifying the health care experience, creating healthier communities and removing barriers to quality care. The work you do here impacts the lives of millions of people for the better. Come build the health care system of tomorrow, making it more responsive, affordable and optimized. Ready to make a difference? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

We are seeking a skilled Software Engineer to join our team. You will contribute to the development and operation of cloud-based services, ensuring high-quality, scalable code with comprehensive testing and documentation. Your role includes collaborating with other teams to resolve issues and drive innovation. If you are passionate about continuous improvement and innovation, we want to hear from you.

This role will see you working across our product suite, contributing to the design, development, and delivery of innovative software. You’ll work with C# (.Net Core), SQL, Python, HTML/CSS, JavaScript frameworks, Azure Stack, collaborating with product owners, data and software engineers to deliver impactful solutions.

Who You’ll Be:

You'll be an experienced software engineer who takes pride in delivering high-quality solutions, approaches challenges with curiosity and initiative, and thrives working both independently and in collaborative teams to solve real-world problems through technology.

What you’ll do:

We believe in the power of technology to allow us to work more efficiently. As part of the LOGIC technology team, you’ll play a key role in helping us deliver innovative products that support healthcare professionals in making informed decisions. You will need to be ambitious, detail-oriented, technically solid, willing to work out of your comfort zone, and eager to learn.

You’ll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, test, and maintain high quality software solutions
• Write clean, scalable, and reusable code with appropriate unit and automated tests
• Participate in code reviews and follow best practices, patterns, and coding standards
• Collaborate with product owners and cross functional teams to translate requirements into technical solutions
• Develop and maintain APIs, backend services, and full stack application
• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve production issues to minimize downtime
• Contribute to software architecture decisions ensuring scalability, security, and maintainability
• Support CI/CD processes, DevOps practices, and automated deployment workflows
• Create and maintain technical documentation
• Continuously evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and process improvements
• Prioritize tasks effectively and provide accurate development estimates
• Understand user needs and ensure solutions deliver an optimal customer experience
• Maintain data integrity, quality, and reliability across systems
• Engage in ongoing learning to stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends
• Collaborate to improve development workflows and engineering quality
• Working with technologies such as Python and SQL
• Build and maintain C#/.Net application using best practices and design patterns
• Optimizing application performance and conducting self-code reviews
• Participate in design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Offer support by responding to system problems in a timely manner
• Design & develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity

You’ll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field
• 4+ years of experience with MS SQL Server, Oracle, and Snowflake
• 4+ years of experience and proficiency of front end skills: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and JavaScript frameworks
• 3+ years of hands on experience with C#, .NET Core, MVC
• 3+ years of professional software development in scalable, secure, cloud native systems
• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and cloud based deployments
• 3+ years developing RESTful APIs; solid understanding of web services and microservices
• 2+ years working with Python
• Experience with SDLC, including testing phases and full lifecycle delivery
• Experience building modular, testable, reusable software components
• Experience working with stakeholders across requirements, approvals, UAT, and post release support
• Familiarity with API development, streaming technologies, Kafka, and Event Hubs
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and infrastructure automation
• Knowledge of integration technologies, middleware, and identity/Active Directory models
• Proficiency in SQL, including writing and optimizing queries and stored procedures (MSSQL, T SQL, PLSQL)
• Proven solid problem solving and analytical abilities, solid attention to detail
• Proven excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Proven organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and collaborative mindset
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex problems and deliver high quality solutions
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively to meet deadlines and deliver product updates
• Demonstrated cultural alignment: integrity, compassion, inclusion, relationships, innovation, performance

Preferred Qualifications:  

• 2+ years of modernizing legacy systems
• Experience with messaging and stream processing on messaging technologies
• SignalR or Similar Technology
• Hands-on experience in building charts, graphs and visuals with SSRS/PowerBI
• Background and experience with metrics reporting
• Automated testing experience
• Experience with State Medicaid / Medicare / Healthcare
• Experience with automated provisioning tools and workflows
• Experience designing, creating, and securing APIs; OAuth, JWT, WS-Security, SAML
• Knowledge and experience working with Docker, Kubernetes
• Knowledge of SharePoint
• Familiarity with healthcare workflows
• Demonstrated understanding of data modeling
• Proven solid knowledge of data structures, algorithms, distributed systems, and asynchronous architecture
• Proven excellent Team Player showcasing independence and ownership
• Demonstrated ability to change and adapt quickly

Telecommuting Requirements:

• Ability to keep all company sensitive documents secure (if applicable)
• Required to have a dedicated work area established that is separated from other living areas and provides information privacy
• Must live in a location that can receive a UnitedHealth Group approved high-speed internet connection or leverage an existing high-speed internet service

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you’ll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $72,800 to $130,000 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone–of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income–deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes — an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.  

UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.