Lead Platform Engineer - Real-Time Decision Platform

Humana; City of Albany (NY); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's real-time recommendations. You will own the State Machine and Outbox, ensure high performance under concurrency, and lead a team across platform, data, and product teams.

The role combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, including setting standards, mentoring peers, and driving production readiness for Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience.
• Experience leading platform reliability, quality engineering, site reliability, or production operations initiatives.
• Strong experience with Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing automated testing frameworks and observability practices.
• Leadership of small engineering pods and contractor resources.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability across the NBA platform.
• Ensure uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks and quality gates.
• Write production code and lead a team of engineers and contractors.
• Define logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and monitoring strategy.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure DevOps

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's real-time recommendations. You will own the State Machine and Outbox, ensure high performance under concurrency, and lead a team across platform, data, and product teams.

The role combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, including setting standards, mentoring peers, and driving production readiness for Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript services.