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.

About The Role

At UnitedHealth Group and Optum, we want to make healthcare work better for everyone. This depends on hiring the best and brightest. With a thriving ecosystem of investment and innovation, our business in Ireland is constantly growing to support the healthcare needs of the future.

Our teams are at the forefront of building and adapting the latest technologies to propel healthcare forward in a way that better serves everyone. With our hands at work across all aspects of health, we use the most advanced development tools, AI, data science and innovative approaches to make the healthcare system work better for everyone.

Todays' Payment Integrity is inherently complex due to opaque and payer-specific adjudication rules, incurring significant waste and inefficiency. Optum Insight is committed to delivering new technology and processes to improve the Payment Integrity workflow using advances in Gen AI and other state-of-the-art technology that would ultimately benefit all stakeholders involved in the healthcare ecosystem - payers, providers, and patients.

As a Software Engineer you will be a fundamental part of a delivery project collaborating with internal IT Specialists and strategic partners through all phases of the development life-cycle.

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 office and telecommuting from a home-based office in a hybrid work model.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform all phases of software engineering including; requirements analysis, application design, code development, and testing
• Design and implement performance and operational enhancements
• Design & Develop reusable components, patterns, and frameworks, encouraging innovation that will enable team velocity
• Review code and provide feedback relative to best practices and performance improvement
• Conduct design and code reviews to ensure that developed code meets software engineering best practices and guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
• Participate in Agile/Scrum methodology to deliver high-quality software releases
• Work with a team of software engineers for one or more Agile scrum teams assigned to work on the project
• Troubleshoot production support issues post-deployment and design solutions as required
• Design, code, test, debug, and document software, whilst enhancing existing components to ensure that software meets business requirements
• Work very closely with architecture groups to drive software solutions
• Contribute to the design and architecture to enable secure, scalable, and maintainable software and be able to clearly articulate the implications of design/architectural decisions, issues and plans to technology leadership
• Collaborate on design with other team members and product owners, both inside and outside of the scrum 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

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience
• Proven experience building backend services with Java using Spring Framework (Boot, Core, MVC)
• Proven experience building applications with JavaScript and React
• Demonstrable Relational Database knowledge
• Proven experience with cloud services; either AWS or Azure, including service buses and streaming
• Proven experience building modular, testable, and reusable software
• Demonstrated experience building and integrating with internal and external RESTful services
• Proven experience with DevOps toolsets such as Jenkins, Terraform, etc.
• Proven software development methodologies: Agile Scrum & Kanban
• Demonstrated experience using AI assisted development tools as part of the end to end software development lifecycle, with clear ownership of code quality, security and outcomes
• Demonstrated knowledge and/or hands on experience designing, building, integrating or operating AI enabled solutions
• Demonstrated understanding of responsible and governed AI usage in engineering, including secure by design principles, data privacy, model evaluation, and the effective application of AI within established engineering standards and delivery frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven experience and understanding of US Healthcare or Health Insurance Industries
• Proven experience working with Docker or Kubernetes

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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