Senior Full Stack Engineer

Humana; Massachusetts; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Humana seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer for Platform Quality and Reliability to own the operational health of the NBA platform post‑build. This role is hands‑on, contributing code each sprint, ensuring production readiness, and maintaining rigorous testing and observability.

You will drive uptime, performance, and resilience across services, build testing frameworks, and own the logging/monitoring stack while coordinating with pod leads and contractors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field.
• 5+ years designing, developing, and testing software and/or infrastructure.
• 4+ years full‑stack engineering with focus on reliability, quality, or SRE.
• Hands‑on experience with testing infrastructure and automated test suites.

Responsibilities

• Own uptime, performance, and resilience across NBA platform services.
• Write and ship production code; hands‑on contributor each sprint.
• Build and maintain automated testing across unit, integration, end‑to‑end layers.
• Own logging, monitoring, and alerting stack for production visibility.
• Design and enforce error handling and failure management in distributed systems.
• Lead scalability efforts as member volume grows and data throughput increases.
• Define criteria for handoff to production and enforce quality gates.
• Manage quality and reliability engineers within the pod; coordinate with leads.

Skills

Full-stack development

Platform reliability

Observability

Testing infrastructure

Polyglot stack

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Become a part of our caring community 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 each 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 location – 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 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.

Location, Work Style, & Remote Requirements

Remote/work at home nationwide – USA. While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings may be required. Hybrid – Boston, MA; very minimal travel might be required for training, meetings, and/or conferences.

Work‑from‑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 California will be provided with payment for their internet expense. A minimum standard speed of 25 Mbps download x 10 Mbps upload is required. Satellite and wireless internet are NOT allowed. A dedicated, interruption‑free space to protect member PHI/HIPAA information is required.

Description Of Benefits

Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries offer competitive benefits that support whole‑person well‑being. Associate benefits include medical, dental and vision, 401(k) retirement savings plan, paid time off, paid parental and caregiver leave, short‑term and long‑term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Humana does not 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. Humana also takes affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and advance individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and bases all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy applies to all employment actions, including recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer, layoff, termination, compensation, and training.