Software Engineer
unitedhealthgroup
Job Description
- Design, develop, debug, test, deploy, and maintain assigned software capabilities, features, APIs, services, scripts, or application components
- Write clean, secure, reusable, and maintainable code that aligns with team standards, engineering practices, and quality expectations
- Apply an automation-first mindset by improving repeatable development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support tasks
- Participate in Agile delivery activities including backlog refinement, estimation, sprint planning, demos, reviews, and retrospectives
- Collaborate with product owners, business partners, quality engineers, architects, and peer engineers to translate requirements into working solutions
- Develop an understanding of application architecture, cost/complexity tradeoffs, and dependencies across upstream and downstream systems
- Instrument delivered features using standard logging, monitoring, alerting, and diagnostic practices so issues can be detected and resolved early
- Support production readiness by contributing to CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, deployment validation, incident analysis, and post-release improvements
- Troubleshoot defects, performance bottlenecks, data issues, and operational problems; recommend corrective actions with guidance from senior engineers
- Continuously learn modern engineering practices, cloud, DevOps, security, AI-enabled development methods, and emerging tools relevant to the team's technology stack
- Comply with the terms and conditions of the employment contract, company policies and procedures, and any and all directives (such as, but not limited to, transfer and/or re-assignment to different work locations, change in teams and/or work shifts, policies in regards to flexibility of work benefits and/or work environment, alternative work arrangements, and other decisions that may arise due to the changing business environment). The Company may adopt, vary or rescind these policies and directives in its absolute discretion and without any limitation (implied or otherwise) on its ability to do so