Senior Java Engineer: Drools Rules Engine & Backend

Humana Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Team Caliber to design, implement, and maintain a Java-based rules engine that governs member eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent before actions are taken.

You will build Java/Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs, integrate with Kafka, and ensure correctness in a PHI‑handling environment. Strong testing and collaboration with product/compliance are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant field.
• 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Java and Spring/Spring Boot skills.
• Experience building and maintaining backend services and REST APIs in production.
• Comfort designing and reasoning about complex conditional/business logic.
• Working knowledge of event‑driven integration and Kafka producer/consumer patterns.
• Experience operating on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD.
• Strong testing discipline and attention to correctness.
• Clear communicator across engineering, product, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Rules engine development – Design, build, and maintain business rules in Java and Drools that govern eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent.
• Backend services – Build and own the Java/Spring services and REST APIs that expose the rules engine to the rest of the platform.
• Event integration – Produce and consume Kafka events to connect the rules engine to upstream signals and downstream decisioning and activation.
• Correctness and testing – Write thorough tests for rule logic and services; treat rule correctness as a first‑class, auditable concern.
• Performance – Keep rule evaluation fast and predictable as the ruleset and traffic grow.
• Quality – Run and participate in code reviews, uphold engineering standards, and ship production‑ready code in a PHI‑handling environment.
• Collaboration – Partner with Product and compliance to turn business and regulatory requirements into clear, maintainable rules.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Drools

Cloud (Azure)

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Testing

PHI compliance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Drools

Kafka

Spring Boot

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Humana Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for Team Caliber to design, implement, and maintain a Java-based rules engine that governs member eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent before actions are taken.

You will build Java/Spring Boot backend services and REST APIs, integrate with Kafka, and ensure correctness in a PHI‑handling environment. Strong testing and collaboration with product/compliance are essential.