Lead Platform Engineer: Real-Time Decisioning

Humana

Juneau (AK)

Remote

USD 129,000 - 178,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform’s scalable, auditable real-time decisioning services.

You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox designs, ensuring robust performance and exact‑once semantics under heavy concurrency. This hands‑on leadership role combines coding with mentoring across Java, Python, Node.js and TypeScript, plus automated testing, observability, and production readiness.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
8+ years of full stack software engineering experience with leadership in reliability or production operations.
Experience with Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript across backend systems.
Strong observability, monitoring, and performance testing capabilities.
Proven ability to lead a small pod and collaborate with cross-team stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Own platform reliability, quality engineering, and production readiness for NBA components.
Lead automated testing, observability, and release readiness across services.
Contribute production code and build reliability tooling.
Define logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting strategies.
Mentor engineers and manage contractor resources.