Lead Platform Engineer — Real-Time NBA Decisions

Humana Inc; Montpelier (VT); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's real-time decisioning services. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox components, set technical standards, and mentor a small team across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

You will drive automated testing, observability, and production readiness in a scale‑out environment, collaborating with decisioning, orchestration, activation, platform, and data teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience, with leadership experience in platform reliability or production operations.
• Strong experience with Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing automated testing frameworks (unit/integration/end-to-end).
• Strong observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring and alerting.
• Experience designing reliability patterns for distributed systems (fault tolerance, retries, resilience).
• Experience leading a small engineering pod and managing contractor resources.
• Experience operating cloud-native applications on Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability across the NBA platform and pods.
• Ensure uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence across services.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks and quality gates.
• Contribute production code and reliability tooling alongside the team.
• Define observability strategy: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting across environments.
• Establish patterns for exception handling, fault tolerance, and recovery.
• Lead cross-team coordination to address reliability risks early.
• Mentor engineers and contractors; conduct code reviews and uphold standards.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Platform reliability

Team leadership

Kubernetes

Automated testing

Observability

AI-assisted development tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure DevOps

GitHub Copilot

Databricks Lakehouse

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's real-time decisioning services. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox components, set technical standards, and mentor a small team across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

You will drive automated testing, observability, and production readiness in a scale‑out environment, collaborating with decisioning, orchestration, activation, platform, and data teams.