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 Frontend Developer (Angular and React Native) to join the engineering team behind our Angular web portals and Expo / React Native member application, a production platform serving more than 1 million members daily across web, iOS, and Android. This role works under the guidance of senior engineers and contributes to day-to-day feature delivery, bug fixes, accessibility, and testing across a mature, long-tenured codebase. This is a hands-on coding role focused on learning the codebase, building strong engineering habits, and growing into more independent ownership over time.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Feature delivery
- Implement well-scoped features, bug fixes, and UI changes under the direction of senior engineers, following established patterns for state management, navigation, and API integration
- Contribute to Angular web portal features and shared UI-library components using TypeScript, Angular templates, services, routing, forms, RxJS, and established state-management patterns
- Implement accessible, responsive interfaces for web, iOS, and Android experiences while following the team design system and established UI patterns
- Write clean, tested code and respond constructively to PR feedback

- Learning the codebase

- Build familiarity with the platform architecture: Angular applications and shared libraries, the React Native app, Context/hooks, Expo Router-based navigation, and established API-integration patterns
- Ask questions and escalate ambiguous or high-risk changes to senior engineers rather than guessing

- Quality and testing

- Write unit and component tests (Jest, React Native Testing Library)



for code you author
- Participate in code review, both giving and receiving feedback
- Help maintain and use the Storybook component library for visual/snapshot checks

- Production support

- Assist with triaging and reproducing reported bugs and crashes under supervision
- Follow existing release and deployment processes (Bitrise, app-store submission) rather than owning them

- Collaboration

- Work within a distributed team, including onshore and offshore colleagues, communicating clearly in writing (tickets, PR descriptions, Teams)
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and Jira-based workflows

- Builder Responsibilities:

- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions using no-code, low-code, and advanced platforms, translating business needs into scalable applications that enhance products, workflows, and decision-making

- Comply with all applicable Company policies, procedures, and business directives, changes including those relating to work location, team assignments, work schedules, and flexible work arrangements

Required Qualifications:

- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
- 3 years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent experience through internships, coursework, bootcamp projects, or personal projects
- Working knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript and frontend fundamentals, including Angular components and templates, React components and hooks, state, props, and basic RxJS concepts
- Basic understanding of REST APIs (making requests, handling responses/errors)
- Familiarity with Git-based version control and pull request workflows
- Proven coursework, internships, bootcamp projects, or personal projects involving mobile or web app development are welcome in place of professional experience




- Proven comfortable using a debugger and reading error messages/stack traces to troubleshoot

Preferred Qualifications:

- Basic familiarity with iOS or Android native development concepts; interest in accessibility (WCAG) or design systems
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices and Jira
- Exposure to Angular, Angular CLI, RxJS, NgRx, or shared component-library development
- Exposure to Angular unit testing with Jasmine/Karma or React Native testing with Jest and React Native Testing Library
- Exposure to testing tools such as Jest, React Native Testing Library, or Detox
- Exposure to healthcare, insurance, fintech, or another regulated data environment (not required)
- Exposure to React Native or a willingness to learn it quickly; prior React Native/Expo project work
- Proven coursework or personal projects using Expo or Expo Router

Working style

- Eagerness to learn an existing, complex codebase rather than build from scratch
- Comfortable asking for help and taking direction from senior engineers
- Clear written communication, useful for asynchronous collaboration with offshore teammates
- Ability to work onshore in the U.S. and to be granted PHI access under company policy

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 valuable 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.

Role: Mobile / App Developer, Industry Type: Software Product, Department: Engineering - Software & QA, Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent Role Category: Software Development Education UG: Any Graduate PG: Any Postgraduate read more

Key Skills Skills highlighted with ‘‘ are preferred keyskills AngularJavascriptReact NativeReactTypeScript

📌 Senior Software Engineer - Angular, React Native (Hyderabad)
🏢 Optum
📍 Hyderabad