Lead Software Engineer - Remote
UnitedHealth Group · Eden Prairie, MN
$112,700–$193,200from the description
Jul 28, 2026
Eden Prairie, MN
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A hands-on Lead Software Engineer role on Optum's Health and Financial Technology platform team, responsible for designing, building, and deploying enterprise-scale healthcare platform capabilities. The role involves integrating AI/ML features, driving architecture decisions, enforcing engineering best practices, and mentoring a team of engineers. It suits an experienced engineer comfortable across cloud infrastructure, DevOps pipelines, and modern security tooling.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,250 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–2,900
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The title 'Lead Software Engineer' maps to a Senior IC band; the role includes mentoring and team leadership but the JD does not describe formal people-management (headcount, hiring, budget), so 15-1252 is preferred over 11-3021, though the runner-up is noted.
The 5+ years requirement covers a broad list of enterprise security and infrastructure technologies (SAST, CSPM, CWP, IAM, DAST, DLP, Infrastructure as Code, Networking, etc.). These are listed together in a single requirement clause; the most concrete named tools have been extracted individually.
CSPM (Cloud Security Posture Management) and CWP (Cloud Workload Protection) appear in the required qualifications list but are categories/capabilities rather than specific named tools, so they are omitted per extraction rules.
The role is remote-US with an in-office requirement of four days per week for candidates in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. areas specifically. The primary CBSA is listed as Minneapolis given that is the first-named office location, but D.C.-area candidates are equally in scope.
Degree requirement: the JD states 'Bachelor's or Master's degree' — Bachelor's is the minimum hard gate and is captured accordingly.
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