Senior Java Engineer: Rules Engine & Compliance

Humana Inc; Richmond (VA); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on Team Caliber to build and maintain the NBA platform's rules engine, which governs eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent before any action is taken.

You will work in a Java/Spring environment with Drools, Kafka, and REST APIs, writing clean, well-tested code, reasoning about complex rules, and ensuring fast, correct processing in a PHI‑handling context.

Qualifications

• 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/Spring Boot

Kafka

Cloud & Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field

Tools

Drools

Kafka

Spring Framework

Kubernetes

Azure

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer on Team Caliber to build and maintain the NBA platform's rules engine, which governs eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent before any action is taken.

You will work in a Java/Spring environment with Drools, Kafka, and REST APIs, writing clean, well-tested code, reasoning about complex rules, and ensuring fast, correct processing in a PHI‑handling context.