Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Policy Platform

Humana Inc; Dover (DE); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms enabling real-time, personalized decisioning across digital and assisted channels.

This role focuses on microservices, advanced database design, and integrating enterprise rules systems, with an emphasis on AI-assisted engineering and governance to ensure correctness and long-term maintainability.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Proven ability to build: Microservices and REST/gRPC APIs; Database-backed systems with evolving schemas.
• Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python; Experience with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate microservices that deliver action and variant metadata and context-aware policy evaluation.
• Design resilient database schemas for versioning, catalogs, and complex relationships.
• Integrate and manage enterprise-grade rules engines (Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA) for policy-driven logic.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to generate/refactor schemas and rules; ensure deterministic behavior.
• Develop automated tests, observability, and governance for reliable platforms.

Skills

Java

Python

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Databases

Rules engines

AI-assisted development tools

Tools

Drools

IBM ODM

DMN

OPA

Job description

Humana Inc in the United States is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms enabling real-time, personalized decisioning across digital and assisted channels.

This role focuses on microservices, advanced database design, and integrating enterprise rules systems, with an emphasis on AI-assisted engineering and governance to ensure correctness and long-term maintainability.