Lead Product Engineer

Humana; Lexington (KY); Remote; USD 129,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana’s Digital Health Platform seeks a Lead Product Engineer to set the technical direction and ship production code weekly. You’ll own architecture, drive AI tooling, and partner with product teams to align roadmaps with measurable outcomes.

This remote, 40-hour role involves influencing engineers without direct reports, setting coding standards, and helping multiple Humana teams adopt the shared AI coding practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience including 5+ years of full-stack web development.
• 2+ years each with React, Node.js, and GraphQL.
• 2+ years leading technical direction and establishing a practice or tool.
• 1+ years hands-on experience building AI coding tooling (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor)

Responsibilities

• Set the architecture and technical direction for platform products.
• Deliver hands-on production code across UIs, GraphQL APIs, and microservices.
• Collaborate with Product Owner on priorities and run discovery, spikes, and prototypes.
• Define how team measures impact and inform roadmaps.
• Set standards for test-driven development, accessibility, performance, and security.
• Grow adoption of the practice across teams and contribute to hiring.

Job description

Become a part of our caring communityHumana’s Digital Health Platform (DHP) is the engineering platform behind many of Humana’s consumer digital experiences. DHP Product Engineering builds the shared pieces other Humana teams build on, including a micro-frontend catalog, accessibility tooling, and API foundations, and we build them with AI coding agents at the center of how we work. We are hiring a Lead Product Engineer to set our technical direction, keep shipping alongside the team, and help that practice take hold across the platform’s product teams.This is a hands-on role with no direct reports. You ship production code most weeks and lead through that work. You own the technical approach to what the team builds and how it knows its products work, and you own the shared AI coding skills and tooling the team relies on. Your influence extends to the other product teams on our platform, and your team’s delivery always comes first.

How we work

Our practice is skills-driven. A skill is a set of reusable instructions that an AI agent follows for a recurring task. The practice is still emerging, and the line between product and engineering is blurring. As Lead, you set the direction of that practice and help other teams adopt it.

Role Responsibilities

Set technical direction

Lead the architecture and technical approach for the products your team owns, make sound calls on complex issues with incomplete information, and keep the team’s architectural decisions documented

Deliver hands-on

Ship production code most weeks across accessible UIs, GraphQL APIs, and Node.js microservices

Shape what we build

Work with users and stakeholders to understand their problems, partner with the Product Owner on priority, and run discovery, spikes, and prototypes before the team commits

Own product outcomes

Define how the team measures its products’ impact on Humana’s members and patients and on the teams who build on our platform, and bring the results into roadmap decisions

Set standards and grow engineers

Set the team’s standards for test-driven development, accessibility, performance, security, and review of AI-generated code, and grow other engineers’ judgment through pairing, design review, and code review

Lead the practice

Own the shared AI coding skills and tooling the team relies on, including their standards, review, and roadmap

Grow adoption across teams

Help other product teams on our platform adopt the practice, onboarding their engineers and coaching them as they extend it

Help build the team

Take part in interviewing and hiring engineers, and help new hires get productive in our practice

What helps you succeed here

• Making sound technical decisions with incomplete information, and explaining the reasoning so others can build on it
• Influencing engineers and teams that do not report to you, through standards, examples, and coaching
• Communicating clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, in writing and in person
• Giving and receiving constructive feedback in code reviews and design discussions
• Bringing structure to ambiguous problems and to processes that are still taking shape

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including 5 or more years of full-stack web development, and 2 or more years each with React, Node.js, and GraphQL
• 2 or more years leading technical direction, including establishing a practice, standard, or tool that teams beyond your own adopted
• 2 or more years owning product direction, such as shaping a roadmap and tying the work to measured results for the people who use it
• 1 or more years of hands-on experience building skills, prompts, or tooling around AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor

Preferred Qualifications

• Establishing test-driven development with Vitest, Jest, or Playwright as a team practice
• Making accessibility part of a team’s development workflow, to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2
• Architecting microservices on Azure with Docker or Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines
• Micro-frontend architecture with Module Federation, including shared modules and cross-app dependencies
• Building React applications with TanStack Query, TanStack Router, TanStack Start, or Next.js

Work from Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Travel

While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana’s offices for training or meetings may be required.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Pay Range

The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc. $129,300 - $177,800 per year This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.

Description of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

About us

About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.