Lead Platform Engineer - Real-Time Decisioning & Scale

Humana; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time recommendations within the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring exactly-once semantics, traceability, and high concurrency handling.

You will mentor engineers, write production code, and set standards for automated testing, observability, and deployment readiness across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript services.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in full stack software engineering with leadership experience
• Experience with backend stacks including Java, Python, Node.js or TypeScript
• Strong observability, testing, and platform reliability knowledge
• Experience operating cloud-native apps on Kubernetes and containers
• Clear communication of risks and tradeoffs to leadership

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability across the NBA platform
• Ensure production readiness, observability, and performance
• Contribute production code and build reliability tooling
• Lead a small engineering pod and mentor contractors
• Define release readiness criteria and operational quality gates
• Collaborate with decisioning, orchestration, activation, platform, and data teams

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD

SRE

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub Copilot

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time recommendations within the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring exactly-once semantics, traceability, and high concurrency handling.

You will mentor engineers, write production code, and set standards for automated testing, observability, and deployment readiness across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript services.