• Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance microservices architectures. • Build and enhance features for web and streaming platforms using modern technologies. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement solutions that meet business and user needs. • Ensure code quality through unit testing, best practices, and design patterns. • Optimize applications for high availability and high load environments.

• Design, develop and test world-class software applications and features using C#, React/NextJs and JavaScript/TypeScript • Design, implement, and maintain unit, integration, and automated tests to ensure code quality, system reliability, and continuous delivery • Consistently deliver new functionality during two-week sprints • Anticipates needs and initiates solutions before issues become problems • Create and maintain documentation of features, design decisions, configurations, and other key technical areas of the application • Actively collaborate with other developers, QA engineers, designers, and product experts in a cross-functional scrum team • Assist with scope and estimation for proposed features leading to accurate cost and timeline estimates • Propose, prototype, and champion technologies and processes that continuously help Skillable advance integration solutions • Mentor other members of the software team to foster skill development and knowledge sharing • Establish quality development patterns and practices, ensuring the team adheres to these standards • Propose alternate designs that improve time-to-market or reduce cost or complexity • Explore and recommend new technologies, patterns, and methods to accomplish items on the technical and product roadmaps • Recommend standards and best practices for non-functional requirements such as system performance, usability, reliability, adaptability, security, legal and other operational aspects • Participate in team on-call rotation during evenings, weekends, or holidays for emergency support or special events • Consistently review work to ensure quality, avoiding errors and maintaining high standards • Support and promote the company values through positive interactions with both internal and external stakeholders on a regular basis • Other strategic business initiatives or special cross-functional project involvement as required

• Champion and embed AI-native development practices and tools (e.g., Cursor, Augment) to achieve significant productivity gains, fostering a 'startup-mode' culture of rapid iteration, high velocity, and quality, including guiding the effective use of AI code generation • Take ownership over the team's architecture, actively participating in design reviews and driving the long-term technical vision. • Take ownership of team code, and actively participate in coding, testing and delivering roadmap projects. Write high-quality code that is well-tested, secure, and maintainable • Lead the team in designing and implementing document processing pipelines — including extraction, classification, chunking, embedding, and retrieval — and identify opportunities to leverage LLMs and modern AI tooling to improve accuracy, coverage, and scalability. • Own the end-to-end design and reliability of document extraction and RAG pipelines — from ingestion and preprocessing through model inference, post-processing, and structured output delivery. Define quality benchmarks, evaluation frameworks, and feedback loops to continuously improve extraction accuracy. • Effectively manage the team's short-term roadmap (spanning the next two quarters), actively identifying risks and creating clear mitigation strategies to ensure successful project delivery • Provide backend and AI/ML-focused technical leadership, leveling up existing team members and helping build high-performance teams. Mentor engineers, fostering their technical and professional growth • Collaborate with cross-functional partners (Product, UX, QA, Customer Support) to ensure the team meets project timelines and solutions align with business strategy. Handle most cross-team conflicts and decisions autonomously • Own monitoring, diagnosing, and resolving production issues within the team's services • Contribute directly to efforts through building features and frameworks, conducting code reviews, participating in architecture and system design discussions • Implement and ensure best practices across the teams to maximize developer productivity • Actively seek opportunities to improve our platform and developer experience and own those initiatives through execution • Partner with recruiting to build and grow the team • Grow into a subject matter expert (SME) in AI document extraction and RAG systems, with a deep understanding of how structured data extraction creates value across the private markets workflow.

Requisition Number: 2349401 Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer to join the Claims Accumulator Hub team. The role involves managing development and support, including application deployments, production support, and implementing machine learning solutions such as generative AI to improve Priority 1 application support. Also, should be able to manage reports if needed. The position requires knowledge of both traditional software development life cycle methods and modern AI algorithms, proficiency in Java Full Stack, Kafka, React, Node.js, Azure and experience with the GenAI stack (including RAG and agents), expertise in AI evaluation tools and techniques, and an ongoing commitment to responsible use of AI within regulated healthcare environments. The ideal candidate brings strong domain expertise in Claims Accumulator Hub workflows, deep hands-on engineering ability, architectural decision-making capability, and a proven track record of reducing incidents, improving system SLAs, and driving measurable reliability advancements. 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: - Lead and manage a high performing team of software engineers, providing coaching, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative culture - Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to define scope, requirements, priorities, and delivery expectations - Develop and maintain project plans, technical roadmaps, and execution strategies for new features, enhancements, and platform initiatives - Oversee engineering activities end to end-from design and development through deployment, production operations, and continuous improvement along with being hands-on when needed. - Drive Agile practices and ceremonies (Sprint planning, standups, backlog refinement, reviews) to ensure predictable, high-quality delivery - Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems; implement corrective actions to improve reliability and reduce recurrence - Architect, evolve, and manage observability platforms using Open Telemetry, Splunk, Grafana, or similar tools - Build and maintain automation frameworks and tools to reduce manual work, improve consistency, and increase operational efficiency - Ensure engineering excellence through robust vulnerability management, automated testing, solid code quality standards, and performance monitoring - Partner with SREs, platform teams, and global engineering groups to align architecture, priorities, and delivery outcomes - Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, performance, scalability, and operational maturity, lead implementation of improvements - Leverage AI-powered tools and platforms to enhance observability, incident response, and operational efficiency - Support cloud modernization initiatives, including on-prem to cloud migration strategies and implementation - Documentation: Create and maintain architectural documentation, including diagrams, technical specifications, and guidelines. 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 in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent experience - 7+ years of experience in SDLC, SRE, DevOps, or related engineering domains - 3+ years of experience leading engineering or operations teams - Hands-on experience architecting and implementing observability solutions (Open Telemetry, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus) - Hands-on experience applying AI/GenAI capabilities-such as RAG, agents, or ML driven anomaly detection-to improve observability, incident response, or operational workflows - Deep understanding of systems architecture, cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and automation - Solid proficiency with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps - Proficiency with scripting or programming languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation and tooling - Proven expertise with public cloud platforms (preferably Azure) and experience supporting or driving on prem to cloud migrations Preferred Qualifications: - Leadership experience in globally distributed teams - Experience with claims preprocessing workflows, regulatory SLAs, HIPAA aligned operational controls, and transactions including 837, 835, 277, and 271 - Experience building custom telemetry pipelines or integrating AI/ML for anomaly detection - Experience with IaC tools (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Ansible) - Experience working in highly regulated or enterprise scale environments - Proven solid background in performance engineering, capacity planning, or large-scale distributed systems - Demonstrated success driving engineering excellence initiatives (DevSecOps, automated testing frameworks, SRE best practices) - Proven exposure to AI tools and their application in SRE workflows for faster delivery and smarter operations *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 $112,700 to $193,200 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.