Lead Platform Engineer — Real-Time, Scalable Platform

Humana Inc; Salem (OR); Híbrido; USD 129.000 - 178.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver real-time recommendation services within the NBA platform.

You will own design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable systems for enterprise-scale participation. In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across platform, data, and product teams to deliver observable and reliable services built on Java,

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience with leadership experience.
• Strong experience building production software across Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience designing automated testing frameworks.
• Strong observability practices including logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring, and alerting.
• Experience designing reliability patterns for distributed systems.
• Ability to lead a small engineering pod and manage contractor resources.
• Experience operating cloud-native apps on Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Clear communicator who can articulate risks and tradeoffs to executives.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity and quality.

Responsabilidades

• Pod delivery — Own delivery for the platform scale and reliability pod, including planning, execution, quality, and operational readiness across the NBA platform.
• Platform reliability — Own uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence across platform services; identify bottlenecks before incidents.
• Quality engineering — Build and maintain automated testing frameworks spanning unit to performance testing.
• Hands-on development — Contribute production code, build reliability tooling, test automation, observability capabilities.
• Observability and monitoring — Own logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and monitoring strategy across environments.
• Error and failure management — Define patterns for exception handling, fault tolerance, recovery, diagnostics.
• Scalability engineering — Evaluate behavior under load and lead performance improvement initiatives.
• Production readiness — Define release readiness criteria and operational quality gates.
• Team leadership — Mentor engineers and contractors; conduct code reviews and uphold standards.
• Cross-team coordination — Partner with decisioning, orchestration, activation, data teams.

Conocimientos

Full stack engineering

Platform reliability

Observability

Team leadership

AI-assisted development tools

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Kafka

Azure DevOps

Claude

GitHub Copilot

Descripción del empleo

Humana Inc. is seeking a seasoned Lead Software Engineer to architect and deliver real-time recommendation services within the NBA platform.

You will own design of the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable systems for enterprise-scale participation. In this hands-on leadership role, you will mentor engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across platform, data, and product teams to deliver observable and reliable services built on Java,