Job highlights

- Bachelor's degree or 5+ years in software engineering with expertise in React, streaming APIs, and custom SharePoint solutions

- Lead front-end development of React-based UIs and SharePoint solutions, design AI-powered tools, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineering Lead at Optum Technology, you will play a pivotal role across two high-impact initiatives that empower employees and enhance corporate operations. You will drive front-end architecture and user experience for Eva, an enterprise virtual agent designed to help employees quickly access information and perform administrative tasks, while also designing and delivering custom SharePoint solutions. Working across React-based user interfaces, streaming APIs, and intelligent employee tools, you will design, develop, and deploy scalable solutions that streamline enterprise workflows and elevate digital employee experience.

Primary Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and deliver modern React-based user interfaces and custom SharePoint solutions tailored for enterprise employee engagement and administrative workflows

- Lead the front-end engineering for Eva, our employee virtual agent, implementing intuitive UI/UX design concepts, streaming API responses, and performance optimization techniques

- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with an emphasis on responsible use of AI

- Leverage enterprise-approved AI tools to streamline workflows, automate administrative tasks, and drive continuous product improvement

- Collaborate with cross-functional product managers, system architects,



and UX design teams to translate complex requirements into clean, maintainable, and modular software components

- Evaluate emerging trends in AI technologies, web frameworks, and solution design to inform engineering decisions and strategic innovation

- Perform rigorous code reviews, ensure robust component packaging, and enforce high standards for code quality, scalability, and enterprise security

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

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or 5+ years of software engineering / application development experience

- 5+ years of hands-on software development experience with web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

- 5+ years of strong proficiency in modern web development with React, including UI/UX design concepts, streaming API responses, performance optimization techniques, and component packaging

- 3+ years of experience designing, integrating, and consuming RESTful APIs and web services

- 2+ years of experience with version control systems (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience developing, customizing, and deploying custom SharePoint solutions

- Experience designing, developing, and optimizing APIs using Python and FastAPI

- Experience with relational database design, data access strategies, and query optimization

- Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment

- Understanding of AI application concepts, including effective prompting, token optimization, Agent-to-Agent (A2A) workflows, Agent-to-UI (A2UI) integration, and building AI agents

📌 Senior Software Engineering Lead - React js (Bengaluru)
🏢 Optum
📍 Bengaluru