Lead Full Stack Engineer

🕒 July 23

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $155.2k - $213.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Humana

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1961

🏥 Healthcare

🛡️ Insurance

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

Healthcare • Insurance • Healthcare Insurance

Humana is a healthcare company dedicated to making a positive impact on the health of individuals, communities, and the healthcare system as a whole. With a focus on putting health first, Humana serves a diverse range of populations, including seniors and the military, providing Medicare Advantage HMO, PPO, and PFFS plans. Humana is committed to fostering a culture of belonging and mutual respect, offering competitive and flexible benefits to ensure the financial security of its employees and their families. The company prides itself on creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has the opportunity to succeed.

📋 Description

• Own uptime, performance, and resilience across NBA platform services • Identify and resolve bottlenecks, failure points, and scaling constraints before incidents occur • Write and ship production code alongside the team as a significant individual contributor • Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers • Establish testing standards and ensure delivery pods hand off code meeting quality standards • Own logging, alerting, and monitoring infrastructure and maintain production visibility • Design and enforce error handling patterns across platform services • Evaluate platform components under load and lead scalability efforts as member volume and data throughput grow • Define and enforce quality gates for safely moving code from delivery to production • Manage quality and reliability engineers and contractor resources within the pod • Set expectations, review work, and uphold engineering standards • Coordinate with delivery pod leads to identify quality and reliability concerns early • Ensure the NBA platform is production-ready, scalable, resilient, well-tested, and observable

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field • 2+ years of project leadership experience • 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, including at least 1–2 years focused on platform reliability, software quality, or site reliability engineering • 8+ years of progressive tech experience as a senior developer in large tech projects • Hands-on experience building and owning testing infrastructure, including automated test suites, integration testing, load testing, and end-to-end coverage • Strong understanding of observability practices, including structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting • Experience designing and enforcing error handling and failure management patterns across distributed systems • Proven ability to lead a small team or pod through delivery and manage contractor resources • Comfortable working across Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript • Strong communication skills to articulate quality risk to engineering leads and senior leadership • Passion for contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences • Comfort using AI productivity tools such as Claude or Copilot • Must work from a dedicated space without ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI/HIPAA information • Home internet service must provide at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload • Strong plus: experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and container-level reliability and scaling • Strong plus: familiarity with Kafka and event-driven architectures • Strong plus: background in healthcare, insurance, or regulated industries • Strong plus: experience with chaos engineering or fault injection testing • Strong plus: familiarity with Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD quality gates • Master's degree is a strong plus • Boston, MA residence is a strong plus

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance • Medical, dental, and vision benefits • 401(k) retirement savings plan • Paid time off • Company and personal holidays • Paid parental and caregiver leave • Short-term and long-term disability • Life insurance • Remote/hybrid work arrangement • Flexible work hours may be possible depending on business needs • Home internet service support through required employer standards • Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings