Senior Backend Engineer - Policy & AI-Driven Microservices

Humana; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Comprehensive benefits

Remote/Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms for real-time, personalized decisioning across digital and assisted channels.

The role emphasizes microservices, advanced schema design, and integration of enterprise rules engines with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and governance. Remote/hybrid work with Boston preference is supported.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of experience in backend or platform engineering.
• Proven ability to build microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Database-backed systems with complex, evolving schemas.
• Deterministic rules or policy-driven platforms.
• Direct experience integrating enterprise rules engines (Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA, or similar).
• Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate microservices that deliver action and variant metadata, context-aware policy evaluation, and versioned APIs.
• Ensure highly available, low-latency, horizontally scalable services with backward compatibility.
• Design, deploy, and maintain resilient database schemas and data stores to support complex relationships and auditability.
• Integrate and manage enterprise-grade rules engines and policy-driven logic.
• Apply AI-assisted tooling to generate schemas, validate rules, and produce test cases.
• Develop automated tests for migrations, APIs, and rules behavior.

Skills

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Java

Python

AI-assisted development

Rules engines integration

Tools

Drools

IBM ODM

DMN

OPA

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms for real-time, personalized decisioning across digital and assisted channels.

The role emphasizes microservices, advanced schema design, and integration of enterprise rules engines with an emphasis on performance, scalability, and governance. Remote/hybrid work with Boston preference is supported.