Lead Full-Stack Engineer: Temporal Orchestration (Remote)

Humana; United States; Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana in a Remote/Hybrid setup seeks a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own orchestration and state machine for the NBA platform, built in Node.js/TypeScript on Temporal. The role drives durable workflows, long-running member journeys, and reliable action delivery across channels.

You will lead a small pod, write code, and own end-to-end delivery with strong observability. Salary ranges reflect the posted pay: $129,300–$177,800 per year, plus an incentive plan.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant area
• 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, with at least 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, with Temporal strongly preferred (or Cadence/Step Functions/Airflow).
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including event-driven architectures, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Experience designing and implementing Kafka producer and consumer patterns in production environments.
• Experience building reliable event delivery systems using Transactional Outbox, event-driven integration patterns, or comparable messaging architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a small pod through delivery and be accountable for technical outcomes.
• Experience operating cloud-native systems on Azure or equivalent cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear communicator who can represent the pod's architecture, delivery status, operational risks, and tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Pod delivery — Own end-to-end delivery for the orchestration pod: planning, execution, quality, and shipping on time.
• Workflow orchestration — Build durable, long-running workflows on Temporal in Node.js/TypeScript to model the member action lifecycle.
• Action delivery architecture — Own end-to-end delivery pipeline from decision publication through activation, delivery acknowledgment, and state reconciliation.
• Activation integrations — Own components that activate decisions to Adobe Experience Platform and publish through Kafka to downstream channels.
• Hands-on development — Write Temporal workflows and activities, Node.js services, Kafka producers/consumers, outbox processors, and integration services.
• Technical decisions — Make day-to-day architecture decisions for the pod, including workflow design, state modeling, retries, idempotency, and API contracts.
• Distributed systems reliability — Ensure exactly-once delivery through idempotent consumers, deduplication, durable state, and safe retries.
• Observability and operations — Establish monitoring, tracing, alerting, and operational visibility across workflows and delivery pipelines.
• Team leadership — Manage and mentor engineers and contractors; perform code reviews and unblock the team.
• Cross-team coordination — Align interfaces with decisioning, Activation, and platform teams; surface risks early.

Skills

Node.js/TypeScript

Temporal

Distributed systems

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS

Tools

Kafka

Azure

Kubernetes

Job description

Humana in a Remote/Hybrid setup seeks a Lead Full Stack Engineer to own orchestration and state machine for the NBA platform, built in Node.js/TypeScript on Temporal. The role drives durable workflows, long-running member journeys, and reliable action delivery across channels.

You will lead a small pod, write code, and own end-to-end delivery with strong observability. Salary ranges reflect the posted pay: $129,300–$177,800 per year, plus an incentive plan.