Manager Software Engineering

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.

Software Engineering Manager having ability to build robust and high-quality design for the prescribed capability and program. Who can think and take our journey of innovations to next level which will deliver a rich, engaging and unmatched customer experience. In this role, you will ensure flawless cutting-edge experiences.

Primary Responsibilities:

- Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
- Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications
- Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions
- Measure and optimize system performance, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating to continually improve
- Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large distributed software applications
- Estimate: Create, understand and validate Design and estimated effort for given module/task, and be able to justify it
- Mentor: Coach high performing engineering team to build and deliver health care product to market
- Operations: Possess/acquire solid troubleshooting skills and be interested in performing troubleshooting of issues in different desperate technologies and environments
- Thought Leadership: Propose and implement best in class architectural solution for big and complex systems
- Engineering: Implement and adhere to best engineering practices like design, unit testing, functional testing automation, continues integration and delivery
- Stakeholder management: Excellent communication skills, clarity of thought and ability to take decisions bases on available information
- 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 regard 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

AI User Responsibilities:

- Use GenAI tools (Copilot, Claude, Gemini AI) to ideate, prototype, and implement features efficiently
- Apply Vibe coding techniques to maintain clean, expressive, and AI-augmented codebases
- Use internal tools and scripts using AI to automate repetitive tasks and improve productivity
- Stay current with emerging GenAI trends, tools, and ethical considerations.

Required Qualifications:

- B.Tech/MCA/Msc/MTech (Minimum 16 years of formal education, correspondence courses are not relevant)
- 12+ years of work experience in Product companies
- Solid experience in ReactJS, Core Java, Spring, Struts, and Hibernate/Spring Data JPA
- Experience with distributed storage technologies like NFS, HDFS, Ceph, S3 as well as dynamic resource management frameworks (Mesos, Kubernetes, Yarn)
- Exposure to agile development process
- Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python, Java, C/C++, Ruby, and JavaScript
- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

Preferred Qualifications:

- Work experience in product engineering
- Work experience in Agile/Scrum Methodology
- Snowflake and Bigdata
- Knowledge of SAFe
- Knowledge of US Healthcare domain, in general and Payment Integrity, in particular

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