Senior Software Engineer: AI-Driven Policy & Microservices

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

Job summary

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms enabling real-time, personalized decisioning across multiple channels.

You will design robust data models, build high-throughput services, and integrate enterprise rules systems with AI-assisted practices. Responsibilities include microservices development, scalable databases, and deterministic rule execution.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Experience building microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
• Experience with complex, evolving database schemas.
• Direct experience integrating enterprise rules engines (Drools/DMN/OPA).
• Strong Java and/or Python skills.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and operate microservices delivering action and policy data.
• Design resilient database schemas for catalogs and versioning.
• Integrate enterprise rules engines for policy evaluation.
• Ensure high availability, low latency, and scalable platforms.
• Collaborate with platform, data, and ML teams; mentor engineers.

Skills

Microservices

REST/gRPC APIs

Database schemas

Rules engines (Drools/DMN/OPA)

Java/Python

AI-assisted tools

Tools

Drools/DMN/OPA

Job description

Humana Inc. is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms enabling real-time, personalized decisioning across multiple channels.

You will design robust data models, build high-throughput services, and integrate enterprise rules systems with AI-assisted practices. Responsibilities include microservices development, scalable databases, and deterministic rule execution.