Software Engineer

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

Requirements:

• 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