Lead Platform Engineer — Real-Time, Scalable Platform

Humana Inc; Helena (MT); Hybrid; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Restaurant d'entreprise

Indemnités de stage/alternance

Job summary

Humana Inc. in the United States seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time recommendations within the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform.

You will own design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable solutions for high concurrency. This hands-on leadership role combines coding, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration across platform, data, and product groups, with responsibilities spanning

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience.
• Experience with Java, Python, Node.js or TypeScript.
• Hands-on testing, observability, and reliability engineering.
• Ability to lead a small engineering pod and manage contractors.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for platform scale and reliability across the NBA platform.
• Ensure uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks.
• Contribute production code and reliability tooling.
• Define logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring strategy.
• Enforce patterns for fault tolerance and recovery.
• Lead optimization for performance and cost efficiency.
• Define release readiness criteria and quality gates.
• Mentor engineers and review code across teams.
• Collaborate with cross‑team decisioning and data groups.

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure DevOps

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Databricks Lakehouse

Job description

Humana Inc. in the United States seeks a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver foundational services for real-time recommendations within the NBA Decision Intelligence Platform.

You will own design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable solutions for high concurrency. This hands-on leadership role combines coding, mentorship, and cross-team collaboration across platform, data, and product groups, with responsibilities spanning