Lead Platform Engineer - Real-Time Decision Platform

Humana; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Humana, Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform components, including state management and outbox correctness, for real‑time decisions in a regulated healthcare setting.

The role blends hands‑on coding with technical leadership across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript. You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and partner with cross‑functional teams to ensure enterprise‑scale performance and auditability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience with leadership in platform reliability or production operations.
• Strong backend experience across Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Experience designing automated testing frameworks (unit, integration, end-to-end, load).
• Solid observability skills: logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting.
• Ability to lead a small engineering pod while contributing as an individual contributor.
• Experience operating cloud-native apps on Kubernetes.
• Clear communication of risks, tradeoffs, and engineering decisions to leadership.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability pod, including planning and operational readiness.
• Maintain uptime, performance, resilience, and platform observability across services.
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks for quality automation.
• Write production code and build reliability tooling, observability capabilities, and platform infrastructure improvements.
• Define logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies for deep visibility across environments.
• Enforce patterns for exception handling, fault tolerance, and recovery in distributed services.
• Lead scalability initiatives to improve performance and cost efficiency as usage grows.
• Define and enforce release readiness criteria and quality gates before production ownership.
• Mentor engineers and contractors, conduct code reviews, and uphold engineering standards.
• Collaborate with cross-team decisioning, orchestration, activation, platform, and data teams.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Platform reliability

Observability

Team leadership

Cloud-native

AI-assisted tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Job description

Humana, Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform components, including state management and outbox correctness, for real‑time decisions in a regulated healthcare setting.

The role blends hands‑on coding with technical leadership across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript. You will mentor engineers, drive reliability, and partner with cross‑functional teams to ensure enterprise‑scale performance and auditability.