The Role
Hands-on engineering lead who mentors Scrum teams, architects and implements scalable microservices and web applications, builds AI/agentic prototypes, ensures web performance/security and drives Agile delivery and production support.
Summary Generated by Built In
Requisition Number: 2369511
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
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 opportunity 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.
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.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Be a hands-on lead
- Drive the Impact in execution by leveraging/building AI Tools
- Lead and mentor/guide scrum team
- Design, Development, initial prototypes, POC of upcoming sprints
- Collaborate with the business to evaluate business goals, identify business problems, and propose solutions
- Ensure team follows best practices and improve application performance
- Influence peers without authority by inspiring them to use cutting edge tools and build best of the breed solutions
- Participate actively in Agile / SCRUM meetings
- Help the Scrum execution team to make a smooth progress on delivering new functionality and at the end the each Sprint
- Support the development team by validating that the design and implementation of their app is in line with requirements, solution design, guidelines and direction/roadmap
- Apply repeatable design patterns, best practices and development frameworks and techniques
- Plan and strategize with other key leaders including resource, technology and product-services planning
- Focus on execution of product features in collaboration with business and IT stakeholders
- Drive some of the software engineering phases including requirements analysis, architecture & application design
- Design and develop innovative solutions to meet the needs of the business
- Triage production support issues post-deployment and drive solutions as required
- Ensure team is building reusable components, frameworks and libraries which can be leveraged across department
- Work very closely with architecture groups and drive solutions
- Collaborate with quality teams to drive continuous improvement
- Research, identify, and recommend industry best practices for solving business problems
- Works with less structured, more complex issues
- 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:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent)
- 12+ years in the software engineering profession across entire SDLC
- 6+ years of hands-on experience in Java, Sprint Boot, MongoDB, React JS, Redux, Node JS, Javascript, Html and Microservices
- Experience in Building Agentic Solutions
- Experience consuming REST Applications
- Proven experience delivering software using an Agile / Scrum methodology
- Good knowledge of Web Security
- Good understanding of Google Web Optimization guidelines, Web Performance best practices and search engine optimization
- Good understanding of web application networking and communication flows
- Demonstrated success designing and building high-quality, scalable commercial software applications
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 opportunity 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
- 12+ years in the software engineering profession across entire SDLC
- 6+ years hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, MongoDB, React JS, Redux, Node JS, JavaScript, HTML and Microservices
- Experience in building Agentic Solutions
- Experience consuming RESTful applications
- Proven experience delivering software using Agile / Scrum methodology
- Good knowledge of web security
- Good understanding of Google web optimization guidelines, web performance best practices and search engine optimization
- Good understanding of web application networking and communication flows
- Demonstrated success designing and building high-quality, scalable commercial software applications
Optum Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — PTO accrues each pay period with eight paid U.S. holidays plus a floating holiday, and generous time away is consistently emphasized. This breadth supports planned and unplanned time off beyond standard vacation days.
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Parental & Family Support — Six weeks of paid parental leave, up to two weeks of paid caregiver leave, Bright Horizons back‑up care, and adoption assistance signal strong family-oriented support. EAP access with counseling sessions further extends help to employees and their households.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Company‑paid short‑ and long‑term disability, Calm app membership, tuition reimbursement, commuter and FSA accounts, and broad employee discounts expand everyday wellbeing resources. Free or low‑cost virtual visits complement these lifestyle supports.
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The Company
What We Do
Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, 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. At Optum, we support your well-being with an understanding team, extensive benefits and rewarding opportunities. By joining us, you’ll have the resources to drive system transformation while we help you take care of your future. We recognize the power of connection to drive change, improve efficiency and make a difference in health care. Join a team where your skills and ideas can make an impact and where collaboration is key to creating technology that produces healthier outcomes.
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Optum Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Optum has three workplace models that balance the needs of the business and the responsibilities of each role. These models, core on‑site (5 days/week), hybrid (4 days/week) and telecommute or fully remote, vary by country, role and location.
Typical time on-site:
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