Lead AI-Ready API & Microservices Engineer — Remote

Humana Inc; Louisville, Northern (KY, KY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) retirement savings plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to guide the design, development, and delivery of enterprise APIs, GraphQL services, and microservices that support Humana and CenterWell digital experiences.

You will lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and mentoring while driving secure, scalable solutions across teams. Location: Louisville, KY or Dallas, TX (Remote with occasional office visits) The role emphasizes API governance, deployment in cloud-native stacks, and collaboration

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale enterprise environments.
• 2+ years of technical leadership experience.
• Strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, microservices, Kafka, and distributed systems.
• Experience building cloud-native solutions on Azure, AWS, or similar platforms.
• Expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, DevOps, observability, monitoring, and SRE practices.
• Strong knowledge of API design, governance, security, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Experience with GraphQL technologies including Apollo, GraphQL Java, Spring for GraphQL, and Federation.
• Working knowledge of OAuth2.0, OpenIDConnect, IAM, Ping Identity, and ForgeRock.
• Proven ability to lead teams, mentor engineers, and deliver in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise APIs, GraphQL services, REST APIs, microservices, and event‑driven capabilities.
• Provide hands‑on technical leadership through architecture discussions, design reviews, coding, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and mentoring.
• Guide API design decisions across REST and GraphQL patterns, including schema design, resolver design, query optimization, federation considerations, API composition, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Drive sprint execution and delivery accountability to ensure teams meet commitments with consistent quality.
• Partner with Product Owners, Architects, and business stakeholders to evaluate requirements, assess technical feasibility, and deliver scalable solutions.
• Establish and promote engineering best practices for API design, GraphQL schema governance, API security, quality, observability, resiliency, and operational excellence.
• Support modernization initiatives using cloud‑native architecture, automation, CI/CD, DevOps practices, containers, and API gateway patterns.
• Champion production readiness, incident response, root cause analysis, performance optimization, and continuous improvement.
• Help evolve enterprise services so they can be securely consumed by web and mobile applications, enterprise platforms, GraphQL clients, AI agents, copilots, and agentic workflows.
• Support API onboarding, documentation, governance, cataloging, and deployment practices across enterprise API platforms and gateways.
• Use your skills to make an impact

Skills

Java/Spring Boot

GraphQL/REST APIs

Microservices

Kubernetes & Docker

CI/CD/DevOps

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

API design & security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apollo GraphQL

GraphQL Java

Spring for GraphQL

Federation

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer to guide the design, development, and delivery of enterprise APIs, GraphQL services, and microservices that support Humana and CenterWell digital experiences.

You will lead architecture discussions, code reviews, and mentoring while driving secure, scalable solutions across teams. Location: Louisville, KY or Dallas, TX (Remote with occasional office visits) The role emphasizes API governance, deployment in cloud-native stacks, and collaboration