Senior Backend Engineer: Elasticsearch & Pipelines | Remote

Energy Innovation Corp; Wilmington (DE); Remote; USD 105,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible remote work

Paid volunteer days

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Backend Developer in Wilmington, DE who values clean, delete-orientated code. The role centers on owning 6+ years of Elasticsearch experience, with cross-functional teamwork across Wilmington, DE.

The position offers flexible remote work, paid volunteer days, and clear opportunities for advancement while offering a competitive salary. You will defend uptime, scale large data pipelines, and contribute to high-stakes testing and deployment workflows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years operating in a Backend Developer role.
• Experience with Elasticsearch at scale.
• Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Monitor Nginx error budgets and manage budgets to prevent outages.
• Defend Humana uptime during off-hours and high-demand periods.
• Pair-program tricky edge cases with engineers across Wilmington, DE.
• Scale data pipelines processing millions of events using gRPC.
• Write Webpack integration tests to prevent regressions before deployment.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Backend development

Nginx

gRPC

Code review

Collaboration

Tools

Webpack

CI/CD

Job description

Humana is seeking a Backend Developer in Wilmington, DE who values clean, delete-orientated code. The role centers on owning 6+ years of Elasticsearch experience, with cross-functional teamwork across Wilmington, DE.

The position offers flexible remote work, paid volunteer days, and clear opportunities for advancement while offering a competitive salary. You will defend uptime, scale large data pipelines, and contribute to high-stakes testing and deployment workflows.