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 perks, 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 Software Engineer Lead to design, develop, deploy, and support scalable, secure, cloud-native applications and backend services.

The role combines technical leadership with end-to-end delivery across regulated business processes. The role involves building high-performance APIs, microservices, document-processing workflows, data-transformation pipelines, cloud integrations, and production-grade software for complex business processes, including healthcare and regulated-domain use cases.

Expectations





• Acts as a Technical Lead within the team or platform
• Owns and drives complex technical initiatives with minimal oversight
• Influences architecture beyond immediate deliverables
• Proactively identifies risks, scalability concerns, and long-term design trade-offs.

Primary Responsibilities

• Architect, design, develop, and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable backend platforms, APIs, and microservices
• Build production-quality Python applications using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or equivalent technologies
• Own the end-to-end software lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and production support
• Develop document-ingestion, PDF-processing, data-extraction, data-normalization, and business-rule-based transformation workflows
• Design and implement integrations with cloud services for c

📌 Software Engineering Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum India
📍 Hyderabad