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Software Engineering Lead

Chennai, India

Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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Software Engineering Lead

Requisition number: 2349120 Job category: Technology Primary location: Chennai, Tamil Nadu Date posted: 03/24/2026 Overtime status: Exempt Travel: No

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.

In this Senior Full Stack Engineer role, You will be responsible for performing design, coding, unit testing and ensuring conformance to the team s development process and standards.

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Review of requirements and/or systems analysis documents for completeness
  • Creation/involvement in documented designs following agreed to design patterns and standards
  • Perform Coding and unit testing independently and assist/mentor his team members whenever required
  • Adherence to coding standards
  • Communicate effectively with other engineers/ QE and onshore team
  • Support the QE team during testing via defect fixes, code deployment, clarifications
  • Fully encourage and facilitate high quality code through of support QE team efforts including but not limited to mentoring, assistance, and writing/executing automation tests as needed
  • Working with the Deployment Lead, peer developers to complete various project deployment activities
  • Adhere to proper use of source control
  • Ensuring delivery of technical artifacts for each project
  • Mentoring developers on technology and application knowledge as needed
  • Identify opportunities to fine-tune and optimize applications
  • 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:

  • B.Tech / MCA / Msc / MTech (16+ years of formal education, Correspondence courses are not relevant)
  • 8+ years of experience working with Java/J2EE technologies in full stack development
  • Testing experience in JUnit/Spock/Groovy
  • Experience in Web services- Restful
  • Experience in using Junit/Spock
  • Experience working with the CI/CD and DevOps goal/initiatives
  • Solid Java programming (JDK1.8) experience
  • Experience of working in a global environment
  • Experience on Eclipse/IntelliJ Idea and JBoss
  • Good working knowledge in SPRING Framework & Spring MVC
  • Good working knowledge in SPRING Framework
  • Sound knowledge of SDLC processes
  • Thorough understanding of Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) concepts
  • Proficient in use of application servers preferably Jboss
  • Proven hands on with Core Java/ J2ee (Spring, Hibernate, MVC)
  • Proven hands on with any of the IDE (IntelliJ/Eclipse/RAD etc.)
  • Proven hands on with Rest based web services
  • Proven hands on with Angular JS/Node JS/React JS
  • Proven hands on with SQL queries and MySQL experience
  • Proven good in development of applications using Spring Core, Spring JDBC, Rest Web services & MySQL DB
  • Proven excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills
  • Proven good communication and presentation skills
  • Proven good attitude and self-motivated

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in Jquery/JSP/HTML5/CSS
  • Experience working on Spring Boot, RabbitMQ & JBoss
  • Experience working on Microservices
  • Experience in Subversion, GIT & Maven
  • Experience of working in Agile environment
  • Experience of Code Quality Tools like Sonar, Checkstyle, Findbug
  • Experience of working on DevOps and related toolsets
  • Healthcare domain experience in Provider/Claim/Member
  • Proven excellent written and verbal communication skills

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.

Benefits

Our mission of helping people live healthier lives extends to our team members. Learn more about our range of benefits designed to help you live well.

Life

Resources and support to focus on what matters most to you, in every facet of your life.

Emotional

Education, tools and resources to help you reduce and manage stress, build resilience and more.

Physical

Health plans and other coverage to support wellness for you and your loved ones.

Financial

Benefits for today and to help you plan for the future, including your retirement.

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