Lead Platform Engineer - Real-Time, Scalable Systems

Humana; Honolulu (HI); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to architect and deliver real-time recommendations for the NBA platform. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensure scalability, observability, and auditability, and mentor a small team across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

You will drive automated testing, platform reliability, and production readiness while collaborating with platform, data, and product teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 8+ years of full stack software engineering experience with leadership experience in reliability/production operations.
• Strong experience building production software across Java, Python, Node.js, or TypeScript stacks.
• Hands-on experience designing automated testing frameworks.
• Strong observability practices and monitoring.
• Experience with distributed systems reliability patterns.
• Ability to lead a small engineering pod and collaborate with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Pod delivery — own delivery for platform scale and reliability pod, incl. planning and release readiness.
• Platform reliability — own uptime, performance, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Quality engineering — build automated testing frameworks and standards across pods.
• Hands-on development — contribute production code and tooling for reliability.
• Observability and monitoring — own logging, metrics, tracing, alerting strategy.
• Error and failure management — define patterns for fault tolerance and recovery.
• Scalability engineering — improve performance, throughput, and cost efficiency.
• Production readiness — enforce release criteria and operational gates.
• Team leadership — mentor engineers and contractors; conduct code reviews.
• Cross-team coordination — partner with decisioning and data teams on reliability.

Skills

Full stack

Platform reliability

Observability

Kubernetes

Java

Python

TypeScript

Leadership

Cloud experience

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

GitHub Copilot

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Humana Inc is seeking a Lead Full Stack Engineer to architect and deliver real-time recommendations for the NBA platform. You will own the State Machine and Transactional Outbox, ensure scalability, observability, and auditability, and mentor a small team across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

You will drive automated testing, platform reliability, and production readiness while collaborating with platform, data, and product teams.