Lead Platform Engineer: Real-Time, Scalable Systems

Humana Inc; Hartford (CT); 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 foundational services for real-time recommendations.

You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable outcomes under high concurrency. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture with active engineering: you will mentor peers, set technical standards, and collaborate across platform, data, and product teams to deliver enterprise-scale

Qualifications

• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience

Responsibilities

• Own delivery for the platform scale and reliability pod
• Build and maintain automated testing frameworks across unit, integration, end-to-end, and performance testing
• Lead a small team of engineers and contractors while contributing as an individual
• Own logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and monitoring strategy across environments
• Define and enforce recovery, fault tolerance, and operational diagnostics patterns
• Lead scalability initiatives to handle growth in membership and engagement
• Define release readiness criteria and operational quality gates for production ownership
• Mentor engineers and coordinate with cross-team stakeholders

Skills

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Automated testing

Observability

Kubernetes

AI-assisted development tools

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Job description

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

You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensuring robust, auditable, and scalable outcomes under high concurrency. This hands-on leadership role combines architecture with active engineering: you will mentor peers, set technical standards, and collaborate across platform, data, and product teams to deliver enterprise-scale