Backend Developer

Humana; City of Rochester (NY); On-site; USD 63,000 - 94,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth plan

Mentorship

Job summary

Humana in Rochester, NY is scaling its technology platform, and the Backend Developer role carries ownership and impact. You design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, and Java, with growth plans and mentorship.

The salary range advertised is $63,000 to $94,000, plus a mentor and benefits tuned for life beyond the Rochester office. You will join a fast-paced team that values experimentation and responsible delivery, with a focus on scalable

Qualifications

• Backend development experience with Java.
• Hands-on Kubernetes, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Ability to mentor and support mid-level teammates.
• Strong stakeholder communication and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using Kubernetes.
• Evaluate Kafka tradeoffs with stakeholders and explain them clearly.
• Set strategic coding standards for Humana engineering.
• Monitor system health and implement production alerting.
• Drive strategic Planning features through code freeze without stability loss.
• Hand off runbooks to on-call engineers for smoother handovers.
• Mentor mid-level engineers to advance their capabilities.
• Decode undocumented Elasticsearch service and maintain it.

Skills

Mentoring

Communication

Team collaboration

Calm under pressure

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Elasticsearch

Java

Job description

Humana is scaling its technology platform across NY, and the Backend Developer we hire becomes one of its load-bearing decisions. With ownership, a $63,000 - $94,000 salary, and 3 years of Cypress to draw on, you'll do your best work at Humana.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain reliable backend services using People Management and Kubernetes
• Walk technology stakeholders through Kafka tradeoffs in language Humana execs grasp
• Set the Strategic Planning coding standards the rest of Humana engineering follows
• Monitor system health and set up alerting for experiment-friendly production environments
• Carry a gently-demanding Strategic Planning feature through code freeze without breaking Humana stability
• Hand off Strategic Planning runbooks so the next on-call at Humana sleeps better
• Build the generously-mentoring Problem Solving feature that wins back the NY accounts Humana lost
• Decode the undocumented Elasticsearch service nobody at Humana remembers writing

What You'll Bring

• Strong rapport-building skills and a genuinely positive presence
• Calm under the quietly-ambitious chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
• Demonstrated capacity to mentor or support mid-level teammates
• Fluency across Elasticsearch and Java, with strong opinions on both

Since day one, Humana has been on an experiment-friendly mission to reshape technology from its base in Rochester, NY. Every high-energy idea gets a fair hearing at Humana, no matter the 5 of experience behind it.

You will see $63,000 - $94,000 on the offer, plus a growth plan, a mentor, and benefits tuned for life beyond the Rochester office.

This listing is current and monitored daily by our talent team.

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