Senior Backend Platform Engineer (Remote/Hybrid)

Humana; United States; Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana 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. You will design microservices, implement deterministic rule execution, and integrate enterprise rules engines to support eligibility and governance.

The role emphasizes scalable backend services, robust data schemas, and AI-assisted tooling to streamline development while maintaining security and

Qualifications

• 6+ years of backend/platform engineering experience.
• Experience with microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Experience integrating enterprise rules engines (Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA or similar).
• Proficient in Java and/or Python.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate microservices delivering action and variant metadata and context-aware policy evaluation.
• Guarantee high availability, low latency, and horizontal scalability.
• Design resilient database schemas and manage schema evolution and dating.
• Integrate enterprise rules engines and ensure deterministic, versioned rule execution.
• Collaborate with platform, data, and ML teams and mentor engineers.
• Lead testing, observability, and governance for compliant platforms.

Skills

Backend engineering

Microservices

APIs (REST/gRPC)

Rules engines

Java/Python

AI-assisted development

Tools

Drools

IBM ODM

DMN

OPA/Rego

Job description

Humana 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. You will design microservices, implement deterministic rule execution, and integrate enterprise rules engines to support eligibility and governance.

The role emphasizes scalable backend services, robust data schemas, and AI-assisted tooling to streamline development while maintaining security and