Lead Platform Engineer — Real-Time Platform (Remote)

Humana Inc; Pierre (SD); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's scalable and auditable real-time recommendations.

You will own the State Machine and Outbox components, mentor a small team, and contribute to production readiness across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript. The role emphasizes hands-on development, platform observability, and reliability engineering within a healthcare-regulated environment, with hybrid work and strong collaboration across

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience, with leadership exposure.
• Experience building production software across Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing automated testing frameworks including integration and end-to-end testing.
• Strong observability practices: logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, alerting.
• Experience designing reliability patterns for distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own design and implementation of NBA platform services for reliability and scale.
• Lead and mentor engineers within a pod; conduct code reviews and uphold standards.
• Develop automated tests and observability tooling; ensure production readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across decisioning, orchestration, and data.

Skills

Full stack engineering

Backend languages

Automated testing

Observability

Reliability patterns

Team leadership

Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver the NBA platform's scalable and auditable real-time recommendations.

You will own the State Machine and Outbox components, mentor a small team, and contribute to production readiness across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript. The role emphasizes hands-on development, platform observability, and reliability engineering within a healthcare-regulated environment, with hybrid work and strong collaboration across