Senior Full Stack Engineer

Humana; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 128,300 - 176,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus incentive plan

Remote work nationwide

Healthcare benefits

Job summary

Humana Inc in Boston, MA is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer for Platform Quality and Reliability. You will own the operational health of the NBA platform, writing production code, implementing automated tests, and guarding reliability through observability and error handling.

This role demands hands‑on contribution, leadership within a pod, and collaboration across multiple tech stacks (Java, Python, Node.js, TypeScript). Remote work allowed nationwide with occasional office visits.

Qualifications

• Location: Hybrid – Boston, MA with occasional in-office time.
• Sponsorship is not available for this role.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and testing software applications and/or infrastructure.
• 4+ years of full‑stack software engineering with 1–2 years focused on platform reliability or SRE.
• Hands‑on experience building and owning testing infrastructure—automated tests, load testing, end‑to‑end coverage.
• Strong observability skills: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting.
• Experience designing and enforcing error handling across distributed systems.
• Proven ability to lead a small team or pod and manage contractor resources.
• Comfort reading across a polyglot stack: Java, Python, Node.js, TypeScript.
• Strong communication; passion for improving consumer experiences.
• Comfort using AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own uptime, performance, and resilience across NBA platform services.
• Hands‑on development – write and ship production code; not supervisory.
• Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end layers.
• Own the platform's logging, alerting, and monitoring stack; ensure production visibility.
• Design and enforce error handling patterns across distributed systems.
• Evaluate platform components under load and ensure scalable operation.
• Define and enforce quality gates for handoff to production.
• Manage quality and reliability engineers within the pod.
• Coordinate with delivery pods to surface reliability concerns early.

Skills

Full-stack engineering

Platform reliability

Observability

Testing infrastructure

Kubernetes

Java

Python

Node.js

TypeScript

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

Kafka

Job description

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The Senior Full Stack Engineer for Platform Quality and Reliability owns the operational health of the NBA platform after it is built. This is a hands‑on engineering role first. You are expected to be a significant individual contributor every sprint. You take handoff from the delivery pods and are accountable for ensuring the platform scales, stays up, fails gracefully, and is covered by rigorous testing and observability. You are not building new features you are making sure what gets built is production‑ready and stays that way.

What You’ll Own

• Platform reliability – own uptime, performance, and resilience across NBA platform services; identify and resolve bottlenecks, failure points, and scaling constraints before they become incidents
• Hands‑on development – actively write and ship production code alongside your team; this is not a supervisory role
• Testing frameworks – build and maintain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end‑to‑end layers; establish testing standards and ensure pods are handing off code that meets the bar
• Observability and logging – own the platform's logging, alerting, and monitoring stack; ensure the team has visibility into what the system is doing in production at all times
• Error management – design and enforce error handling patterns across platform services; ensure failures are caught, logged, surfaced, and resolved systematically
• Scalability engineering – evaluate platform components under load and lead efforts to ensure the system scales reliably as member volume and data throughput grow
• Handoff and quality gates – define and enforce the criteria pods must meet before handing off new services or features; own the process that gets code from delivery to production safely
• Contractor management – manage quality and reliability engineers within your pod; set expectations, review work, and hold the team to standards
• Cross‑pod coordination – work closely with all delivery pod leads to catch quality and reliability concerns early; be the voice that asks how something breaks before it ships

What You’ll Need

• Hybrid – Boston, MA; with occasional in‑office time
• Sponsorship is not available for this role
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and testing software applications and/or infrastructure
• 4+ years of full‑stack software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years focused on platform reliability, software quality, or site reliability engineering
• Hands‑on experience building and owning testing infrastructure – automated test suites, integration testing, load testing, and end‑to‑end coverage
• Strong understanding of observability practices: structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting
• Experience designing and enforcing error handling and failure‑management patterns across distributed systems
• Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources
• Comfortable reading and working across a polyglot stack – the NBA platform spans Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript
• Strong communication skills – you can clearly articulate quality risk to engineering leads and to senior leadership
• Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
• Comfort using AI productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, or similar) to accelerate testing, debugging, and analysis

Strong Plus

• Master’s degree
• Experience with Kubernetes‑based platforms and container‑level reliability and scaling
• Familiarity with Kafka and event‑driven architectures – understanding how failures propagate across async systems
• Background in healthcare, insurance, or other regulated industries where audit trails and compliance are non‑negotiable
• Experience with chaos engineering or fault injection testing
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD quality gates

Work Style: Remote/work at home nationwide – USA. While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Work Hours: Typical business hours are Monday-Friday, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week – some flexibility might be possible, depending on business needs.

Work at Home Requirements

Must have the ability to provide a high‑speed DSL or cable modem for a home office. Associates or contractors who live and work from home in the state of California will be provided with payment for their internet expense.

A minimum standard speed for optimal performance of 25 Mbps download × 10 Mbps upload is required.

Satellite and Wireless Internet service is NOT allowed for this role.

A dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.

Pay Range

$128,300 – $176,400 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.

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.

Humana complies with all applicable federal civil‑rights laws and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We also provide free language interpreter services. See our https://www.humana.com/legal/accessibility-resources?source=Humana_Website.