Senior Lead Software Engineer

Evernorth Health Services; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Evernorth is seeking a Software Engineering Advisor to design and build backend services for AI-enabled applications, integrating LLMs into enterprise systems and ensuring secure, scalable architectures.

The role emphasizes leading technical design, collaborating across product, architecture, security and platform teams, and mentoring other engineers in an agile environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Strong experience with backend development (Python, or similar).
• Experience building and operating cloud-based systems (preferably AWS).
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and service design.
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure system design.
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and production support.
• Experience working with graph-based or relationship centric data.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services for AI-enabled applications.
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems.
• Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and safe interaction patterns.
• Develop and maintain APIs and service integrations.
• Ensure systems are secure, observable, and production-ready.
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and platform teams.
• Lead technical design and review efforts.
• Mentor and support other engineers.

Skills

Python for AI/ML integration

AWS Cloud

Job description

Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,

we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t.

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

Software Engineering Advisor

ABOUT EVERNORTH:

Evernorth℠ exists to elevate health for all, because we believe health is the starting point for human potential and progress. As champions for affordable, predictable and simple health care,

we solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t.

Our innovation hub in India will allow us to work with the right talent, expand our global footprint, improve our competitive stance, and better deliver on our promises to stakeholders. We are passionate about making healthcare better by delivering world-class solutions that make a real difference.

We are always looking upward. And that starts with finding the right talent to help us get there.

Software Engineering Advisor

Evernorth, a leading Health Services company, is looking for exceptional engineers/developers in our Data and Analytics organization. In this role, you will actively participate with your development team on initiatives that support Evernorth's strategic goals as well as subject matter experts to understand business logic you will be engineering. As a software engineer, you will help develop an integrated architectural strategy to support next-generation capabilities on an enterprise-wide scale. You will work in an agile environment, delivering user-oriented products.

The ideal candidate will work in a team environment that demands technical excellence, whose members are expected to hold each other accountable for the overall success of the end product. Focus for this team is on the delivery of innovative solutions to complex problems, but also with a mind to drive simplicity in refining and supporting of the solution by others

• Design and build backend services for AI-enabled applications
• Integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) into enterprise systems
• Implement structured outputs, tool/function calling, and safe interaction patterns
• Develop and maintain APIs and service integrations
• Ensure systems are secure, observable, and production-ready
• Collaborate with product, architecture, security, and platform teams
• Lead technical design and review efforts
• Mentor and support other engineers

Qualifications

Required Experience & Education:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience
• Strong experience with backend development (Python, or similar)
• Experience building and operating cloud-based systems (preferably AWS)
• Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems, and service design
• Experience with authentication, authorization, and secure system design
• Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and production support
• Experience working with graph-based or relationship centric data

Required Skills:

• Python for integrating or working with AI/ML systems, Cloud Experience (AWS)

Preferred Skills, Experience & Education:

• Familiarity with LLM-based application patterns, prompts, responses and basic evaluation
• Understanding of responsible and controlled AI usage in production systems

Nice to Have:

• Experience with AI orchestration, workflows, or agent-based patterns
• Knowledge of semantic technologies or knowledge graphs
• Exposure to emerging AI integration standards or protocols
• Experience building internal platforms or shared services

Location & Hours of Work

(Specify whether the position is remote, hybrid, in-office and where the role is located as well as the required hours of work)

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.