Senior Software Engineer - Java, React or Angular

UnitedHealth Group; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

UnitedHealth Group is seeking an experienced software engineering leader to drive end-to-end development of scalable, high-performance applications. You will lead a team, integrate AI/ML features, and architect event-driven, cloud-native solutions across AWS/Azure/GCP.

The role requires hands-on expertise in Java, Spring, microservices, and modern DevOps practices, with a strong focus on performance, scalability, and stakeholder collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 7+ years hands-on experience in end-to-end software development.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/ML features into production systems.
• Event-driven architecture experience with Kafka.
• Extensive cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Solid SQL/NoSQL database experience and data modeling.
• Expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and related Spring stack.
• Proven microservices and cloud-native architecture experience.
• Proficient in CI/CD, Git, Maven/Gradle, testing, monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders and architects to deliver reliable solutions.
• Communicate new product and solution requirements to teams.
• Lead the team toward technical accomplishments and project goals.
• Resolve design issues and negotiate priorities with business partners.
• Perform analysis, design, coding, testing, and documentation.
• Enhance existing products and create new offerings using latest tech.
• Build and lead a product development team to meet objectives.
• Collaborate with leaders to develop strategic projects and streamline decisions.
• Act as technical leader for code reviews and post-project analysis.
• Provide leadership for planning, recruiting, and managing a world-class team.
• Continuously assess and redesign processes to be repeatable and scalable.

Skills

Java

Spring Framework

Kafka

Cloud platforms

SQL/NoSQL

Microservices

CI/CD

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelors in computer science

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Oracle

MongoDB

Redis

Git

Maven/Gradle

Jenkins

Job description

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:

• Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, Partner Solution Architects, and Technical Architects to ensure reliable and accurate solutions that meet client outcomes
• Communicate new product and solution requirements to the solution development and management team
• Lead the team towards technical accomplishments, fostering collaborative efforts and achieving critical project goals
• Independently communicate with business partners to resolve design issues and negotiate project priorities and deadlines
• Perform analysis, design, coding, engineering, testing, debugging, and documentation tasks
• Enhance existing products and create new offerings utilizing the latest technology
• Build and lead a product development team to deliver projects that meet business objectives and solve critical user problems
• Collaborate with key leaders to develop strategic projects, streamline decision‑making, and manage the engineering team
• Act as a technical leader, managing code reviews, post-project analysis, and articulating project success factors
• Provide leadership for planning, recruiting, and managing a world‑class technology, product development, and application engineering team
• Continuously assess and redesign processes to ensure they are repeatable, sustainable, and scalable
• 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
• 7+ years of hands‑on experience in end to end software development, delivering scalable, high performance modern applications, systems
• Hands‑on experience integrating AI/ML driven features into production systems, including data pipelines, model driven workflows, and optimization techniques
• Hands‑on experience with event driven architecture, Apache Kafka, messaging, and asynchronous processing
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, GCP) for building, deploying, and operating production grade applications
• Solid experience with SQL databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle) and NoSQL stores (MongoDB, Redis), including data modeling and query optimization
• Solid expertise in Java , Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Batch, Spring Security, Spring Data JPA, Hibernate
• Demonstrated expertise in applications with multiple upstream and downstream dependencies, including service orchestration, resilience patterns, and failure handling
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines, Git, Maven/Gradle, and modern testing methodologies. Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability using metrics, centralized logging, distributed tracing, and alerting
• Proven ability to design and deliver enterprise level solutions aligned with business goals using microservices architecture, cloud native application development, and distributed systems
• Proven solid focus on performance tuning and optimization, including JVM tuning, database optimization, API latency reduction, and capacity planning
• Proven solid leadership skills, mentoring junior engineers, managing cross functional teams, and overseeing delivery from concept to production
• Proven problem solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, enabling effective collaboration across teams

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.

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