Senior Software Engineer, Distributed Systems & Exactly-Once

Humana; Colorado Springs (CO); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate stateful services for real-time decisioning and personalization. You’ll work on distributed, low-latency systems with exactly-once semantics and AI-assisted tooling.

Join a collaborative team across platform, data, and quality engineering to ensure end-to-end reliability, observability, and auditable state transitions. Remote/hybrid work with occasional travel to Humana offices noted.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 6+ years of backend or platform engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Kotlin, Go or Python.
• Experience with AI-assisted development tools for productivity and code quality.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and operate stateful services for real-time decisioning and personalization.
• Develop explicit state machines and exactly-once processing for high-concurrency workloads.
• Build reliable outbox-based side effects and robust observability.
• Collaborate with platform, data, and quality teams to ensure end-to-end reliability.

Skills

Java

Kotlin

Go

Python

Backend engineering

AI tools

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AI-assisted development tools

Distributed systems tooling

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design, implement, and operate stateful services for real-time decisioning and personalization. You’ll work on distributed, low-latency systems with exactly-once semantics and AI-assisted tooling.

Join a collaborative team across platform, data, and quality engineering to ensure end-to-end reliability, observability, and auditable state transitions. Remote/hybrid work with occasional travel to Humana offices noted.