Senior Platform & API Engineer, AI HealthTech

Humana; Dallas (TX); Remote; USD 128,000 - 176,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana's Centerwell division seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design and implement platform and API layers, spanning backend services and front-end interfaces using TypeScript and Next.js. You will set standards for security, scalability, and reliability across care-team and patient workflows.

You will own API design, security patterns, and AI-enabled tooling integration, collaborating with data systems and product teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend and platform engineering.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python for API and service development.
• Proven track record building scalable, production-grade REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Solid understanding of authentication (OAuth2, OIDC), API security patterns, and authorization model design.
• Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements, particularly secure transmission, storage, and access control for PHI.
• Experience with Next.js and React sufficient for full-stack feature contribution.
• Demonstrated ownership of complex backend systems end-to-end, from architecture through production operation.
• Hands‑on experience with AI‑assisted development tools and LLM coding harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Platform and API Architecture: Design and lead development of core backend services, REST and GraphQL APIs, and service-to-service integrations that connect all layers of Centerwell's AI product stack.
• Security and Compliance by Design: Establish patterns for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, PHI access control, and audit logging. Ensure HIPAA compliance is embedded in platform design from day one.
• AI and LLM Integration Patterns: Define and implement reusable patterns for integrating AI capabilities into product APIs, including LLM routing, streaming responses, tool orchestration, and model output handling.
• Observability and Reliability: Build logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure so the platform is operable and debuggable at scale.
• Full-Stack Feature Delivery: Contribute to product feature development end-to-end using TypeScript and Next.js, from server-side APIs to rendered UI.
• Architecture Reviews and Standards: Drive architecture reviews and define backend engineering standards that the full engineering team builds on.

Skills

TypeScript

Python

REST APIs

GraphQL

OAuth2/OIDC

HIPAA

Next.js

React

LLM tooling

Education

B.S./M.S. in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GraphQL

OAuth2

API security patterns

Next.js

Job description

Humana's Centerwell division seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design and implement platform and API layers, spanning backend services and front-end interfaces using TypeScript and Next.js. You will set standards for security, scalability, and reliability across care-team and patient workflows.

You will own API design, security patterns, and AI-enabled tooling integration, collaborating with data systems and product teams.