Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Temporal Orchestration (Remote)

Humana Inc; Olympia (WA); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own the NBA platform's orchestration and state machine. You will lead a pod, write Node.js/TypeScript code, and own durable workflows on Temporal that manage long-running member journeys and action delivery across channels.

You will design and implement end-to-end delivery pipelines, activation to Adobe Experience Platform, and ensure exactly-once semantics with idempotent processing. Remote/hybrid work with travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant area.
• 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, with 1–2 years in a tech-lead or senior-lead capacity.
• Strong Node.js/TypeScript backend experience building production services.
• Hands–on experience with workflow orchestration platforms, preferably Temporal (or Cadence/Step Functions/Airflow).
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals: event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Experience designing and implementing Kafka producer/consumer patterns in production.
• Experience building reliable event delivery systems using Transactional Outbox or similar patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a small pod through delivery and own technical outcomes.
• Experience operating cloud-native systems on Azure or similar, with Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own orchestration pod delivery, planning, execution, quality, and timely shipping.
• Design durable, long-running Temporal workflows modeling member action lifecycle.
• Manage end-to-end action delivery pipeline from decision publication to activation and delivery receipt.
• Oversee activation integrations to Adobe Experience Platform and downstream Kafka channels.
• Contribute code and lead development, including Temporal workflows, Node.js services, and Kafka components.
• Make day-to-day architecture decisions on workflow design, state models, retries, and API contracts.
• Ensure reliability in an asynchronous environment with idempotency and durable state management.
• Establish observability: monitoring, tracing, alerting for workflows and delivery pipelines.
• Mentor engineers and contractors; ensure code quality and unblock the team.
• Coordinate interfaces with decisioning, activation systems, and platform teams.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

Temporal workflow

Kafka

Transactional Outbox

CI/CD pipelines

Azure

Kubernetes

React/TypeScript

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant area

Tools

Kafka

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Azure

Docker

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own the NBA platform's orchestration and state machine. You will lead a pod, write Node.js/TypeScript code, and own durable workflows on Temporal that manage long-running member journeys and action delivery across channels.

You will design and implement end-to-end delivery pipelines, activation to Adobe Experience Platform, and ensure exactly-once semantics with idempotent processing. Remote/hybrid work with travel may be required.