Software Engineer

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together. 

Our Product Engineering team - Optum Product Engineering Nexus (OPEN) are looking for a Software Engineerwho shall help maintain and enhance existing Web based Analytics dashboard products. The Teams have a mix of commercial products at ideate, manage and build stages.  

We are seeking a Software Engineer to join a mature Product Engineering team working on a brownfield Business Intelligence (BI) product built on large-scale historical datasets. This role will have a primary focus on maintaining and enhancing a set of externally consumable REST APIs. It has a solid emphasis on solid Software Engineering practices and operational excellence with solid Java experience and a passion for Cloud technologies.

Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain and secure public consumable REST APIs
• Triage and contribute to operational evaluations on production systems
• Implement and enhance automated controls on external APIs
• Implement features to facilitate self-serve client token life cycle management
• Work within a value stream team to deliver enhancements to existing products
• Integrate observability in the operations processes for managing API
• Support incident response, triage and root cause analysis for production issues
• Partner closely with Data Engineers, Software Engineers, and Automation Engineers within a multidisciplinary valuestream team
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, design discussions, and technical reviews with the wider team

You will be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role, as well as providing development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven experience with Spring Boot in building REST APIs
• Proven experience with securing REST end-points
• Proven experience with Spring Security
• Proven operational experience of deploying, monitoring and maintaining systems in production including CI/CD pipelines with tooling such as GitHub Actions
• Demonstrated knowledge of observability practices
• Proven experience of partnering on the delivery of Software with ability to communicate and collaborate within team and with wider stakeholders
• Proven experience with one or more public cloud computing platforms such as Azure, AWS & GCP preference for Azure
• Demonstrated ability to be innovative and passionate about new technologies including leveraging AI for build execution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Degree in Computer Science or related technical field 
• Demonstrated knowledge of Heath care datasets 
• Proven experience with building publicly consumable REST APIs

Please note you must currently be eligible to work and remain indefinitely without any restrictions in the country to which you are making an application. Proof will be required to support your application.  

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.


Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug-free workplace. © 2026 Optum Services (Ireland) Limited. All rights reserved.

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