Sr Manager, Software Engineering - Remote
About The Position
Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation. Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone. From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges. Your contributions here have the potential to change lives. Ready to build the next breakthrough? Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent practical experience)
- 15+ years of professional software engineering experience building backend systems in Java and/or Python
- Experience managing teams/people
- Solid experience with databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL/Oracle and/or MongoDB/Cassandra), including performance tuning and transactional consistency
- Experience designing distributed systems (microservices, REST/gRPC, concurrency, caching, resiliency patterns)
- Proven experience delivering AI-enabled solutions (LLM integration, ML inference deployment, feature engineering, vector databases such as Pinecone/Weaviate/pgvector, or MLOps tools)
- Hands-on expertise with Kafka in production (exactly-once/at-least-once semantics, schema evolution, monitoring, capacity planning)
- Solid understanding of cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD
- Proven solid problem-solving, communication, and ability to lead technical design discussions
- All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group’s Telecommuter Policy
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable backend services and APIs using Java and Python
- Architect and implement event-driven/microservices solutions using Kafka (topics, partitions, consumer groups, schemas, retries/DLQs)
- Model, optimize, and maintain relational and/or NoSQL databases (schema design, indexing, query tuning, migrations)
- Develop data processing pipelines (streaming and batch) with solid focus on reliability, observability, and performance
- Build and integrate AI/ML-powered features (model inference services, prompt orchestration, vector search, or ML pipelines) and collaborate with data science teams
- Ensure production readiness: CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring/alerting, and incident response/root-cause analysis
- Enforce engineering best practices: code reviews, secure coding, documentation, and mentoring junior engineers
- Collaborate cross-functionally with product, QA, platform/SRE, and stakeholders to deliver roadmap initiatives
Benefits
- comprehensive benefits package
- incentive and recognition programs
- equity stock purchase
- 401k contribution
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
