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 highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our engineering organization.

This role requires a strong technical leader who can independently drive complex engineering initiatives, provide technical guidance, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and deliver scalable enterprise-grade solutions. The ideal candidate should possess strong full-stack engineering expertise, exceptional problem-solving abilities, proven ownership of large-scale applications, and the ability to collaborate effectively across engineering and business teams. This position is expected to operate with a high degree of autonomy while driving engineering excellence, modernization efforts, platform scalability, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Primary Responsibilities Technical Leadership

Lead technical design and solution discussions

Evaluate architectural trade-offs and recommend scalable solutions

Drive engineering standards, best practices, and code quality initiatives

Conduct architecture reviews, design reviews, and code reviews

Mentor and guide engineers across the team

Delivery Ownership

Own complex initiatives from design through production deployment

Independently drive execution with minimal supervision

Manage technical risks and dependencies proactively

Ensure predictable and high-quality delivery across multiple workstreams

Architecture & Solution Design

Design highly scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions

Contribute to technology strategy and technical roadmaps

Drive modernization efforts and technology upgrades

Identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and simplification

Platform Engineering

Improve application reliability, scalability, and performance

Support high-availability platform architectures

Lead root-cause analysis of production issues

Drive operational excellence and technical debt reduction initiatives





Stakeholder Management

Collaborate with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Leaders, and Business Stakeholders

Translate business requirements into technical solutions

Provide technical recommendations and implementation strategies

Communicate technical concepts effectively to diverse audiences

AI & Engineering Innovation

Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices

Evaluate AI and GenAI solutions for productivity improvements

Identify opportunities for automation using AI technologies

Mentor engineers on responsible AI usage and engineering innovation

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

Required Qualifications 8+ years of software engineering experience

Experience delivering enterprise-scale applications

Experience leading technical design discussions

Experience mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence

Experience leading modernization and transformation initiatives

Solid understanding of cloud-native and distributed architectures

Required Technical Skills

Backend Engineering

Java (8/11/17+)

Spring Boot

Spring Security

Spring Data JPA

REST APIs

Microservices Architecture

Distributed Systems Design

Enterprise Integration Patterns

Database Technologies

MongoDB

MySQL

Database Design

Data Modeling

Query Optimization

Database Performance Tuning

Event Streaming & Messaging

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Event-Driven Architecture

Producer / Consumer Patterns

Asynchronous Processing Frameworks

Frontend Engineering

ReactJS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Modern UI Design Principles





Component-Based Architecture

UI Performance Optimization

Cloud & DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Cloud-Native Architecture

Monitoring & Observability

Infrastructure Automation

Performance & Scalability The candidate must possess solid expertise in:

Performance Engineering

Application Performance Tuning

JVM Performance Optimization

Scalability Architecture

High Availability Design

Throughput Optimization

Capacity Planning

Distributed System Performance

Database Scaling Strategies

Caching Patterns

Load Balancing Strategies

Resiliency Patterns

Performance Testing & Analysis

AI & GenAI Skills:

Strong understanding of Generative AI and LLMs

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Copilot

Prompt Engineering

AI-assisted Software Development

Responsible AI Practices

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

REST APIs

ReactJS

TypeScript

MongoDB

MySQL

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Performance Engineering

Scalability Architecture

Git

Agile/Scrum

AI-Assisted Development Tools

Preferred Qualifications Skills

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure / AWS / GCP

Application Security

Observability Platforms

Distributed Systems Design

Azure OpenAI

GitHub Copilot

Microsoft Copilot

Key Expectations The Selected Candidate Will Independently drive complex engineering initiatives

Lead technical design and architecture discussions

Mentor and develop engineering talent

Demonstrate strong ownership and accountability

Build highly scalable, secure, and resilient systems

Drive performance optimization initiatives

Influence engineering strategy and technology decisions

Promote engineering best practices and operational excellence

Drive adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices

Deliver predictable, high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision 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 chance 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.

📌 Senior Software Engineer I - JAVA, React, SpringBoot, MicroService, Gen AI (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Hyderabad