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About the Role

As a Tech Lead, you will provide technical leadership across a product-driven delivery team, owning backend technical direction while remaining hands-on with implementation. You will partner closely with product managers, engineering leaders, and other tech leads to shape technical strategy, guide execution of complex initiatives, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable, and reliable software solutions. You will set engineering standards, mentor engineers across levels, and play a key role in advancing our Java and Spring Boot microservices ecosystem within an agile scrum environment.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for a backend delivery team, ensuring product stories are well-designed, estimable, and meet acceptance criteria
Serve as a hands-on technical lead while remaining a primary individual contributor (player/coach)
Design, develop, and maintain Java-based Spring Boot microservices, delivering well-tested, high-quality code that meets functional and non-functional requirements and contributes to sound microservice architecture and design decisions
Review and improve code quality by providing high-quality pull request reviews, reinforcing engineering best practices, and coaching engineers through rigorous and thoughtful code review
Clarify requirements with product and stakeholders, communicate technical trade-offs, and translate business needs into low-level technical designs and implementation estimates
Fully participate in Agile ceremonies (standups, refinement/grooming, planning, retrospectives) and help improve team execution, predictability, and continuous improvement
Support CI/CD pipelines, DevOps automation, and deployment processes; continually improve SDLC, CI/CD, and engineering best practices
Perform debugging, monitoring, and troubleshooting using observability tools (e.g., Splunk or Sumo Logic) to maintain microservice health and reliability

Requirements

6+ years of professional software engineering experience with deep Java and Spring Boot expertise
6+ years of experience with event-driven and API-based microservice architectures
5+ years of experience working with relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
4+ years of experience leading technical design and influencing engineering decisions across a team or domain
4+ years of experience working within Agile development frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, or similar)
4+ years of experience collaborating across distributed and cross-functional teams
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field
3+ years of CI/CD and DevOps experience
2+ years of AWS cloud experience
2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead or System Architect
Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment

Skills

Java
Spring Boot
Event-driven architectures
API-based microservice architectures
Relational databases
Postgres
MySQL
Agile development frameworks
Scrum
Kanban
CI/CD
DevOps automation
Debugging
Monitoring
Troubleshooting
Observability tools
Splunk
Sumo Logic
AWS cloud

Experience Level

6+ years of professional software engineering experience
4+ years of experience leading technical design
2+ years of experience as a Technical Lead or System Architect

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field

Salary/Compensations

$112,700 - $193,200 annually

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package
Incentive and recognition programs
Equity stock purchase
401k contribution

About the Company

Optum Tech is a global leader in health care innovation.
Our teams develop cutting-edge solutions that help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone.
From advanced data analytics and AI to cybersecurity, we use innovative approaches to solve some of health care’s most complex challenges.
Your contributions here have the potential to change lives.
Ready to build the next breakthrough?
Join us in making healthcare work better for everyone through people-led, responsible AI while Caring. Connecting. Growing together.
At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and help make the health system work better for everyone.
Together, we are shaping the future of healthcare by harnessing technology and innovation to make care simpler to navigate, more affordable and more connected for the people we serve.
We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels welcomed, valued, heard and respected, empowering people to bring their authentic selves to work and strengthening our collective impact through diverse talents, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.
UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are a drug-free workplace.

Equal Opportunity

UnitedHealth Group and its affiliated brands are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.