Lead Platform Engineer - Real-Time NBA Platform Reliability

Humana Inc; Bismarck (ND); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Bonus incentive program

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Humana Inc seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform’s foundational services, ensuring real‑time recommendations are dependable, auditable, and scalable. You will own the design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, and lead a team across platform, data, and product groups while writing production code.

As a hands‑on technical leader, you will drive reliability engineering, automated testing, observability, and production

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience with leadership in platform reliability or production operations.
• Experience across Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript on cloud-native apps.
• Hands-on design of automated testing, observability, and reliability patterns.
• Ability to lead a small pod and manage contractor resources while contributing individually.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale, reliability, and operational readiness.
• Architect and implement State Machine and Transactional Outbox components.
• Drive automated testing frameworks across unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance tests.
• Oversee logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and monitoring strategies.
• Mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and partner with cross‑functional teams.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Cloud native

Observability

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Humana Inc seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform’s foundational services, ensuring real‑time recommendations are dependable, auditable, and scalable. You will own the design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, and lead a team across platform, data, and product groups while writing production code.

As a hands‑on technical leader, you will drive reliability engineering, automated testing, observability, and production