Senior Full Stack Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Massachusetts.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of uptime, performance, and resilience for NBA platform services.

• Proactively identify and address bottlenecks, failure points, and scaling constraints prior to incidents arising.

• Contribute significantly by writing and deploying production code as an individual contributor.

• Develop and sustain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end testing layers.

• Set testing standards and ensure that delivery teams hand off code that meets quality benchmarks.

• Manage logging, alerting, and monitoring systems to maintain visibility in production.

• Design and implement error-handling patterns across platform services.

• Assess platform components under load and spearhead scalability enhancements.

• Define and impose quality gates for the safe transition of code from delivery to production.

• Supervise quality and reliability engineers, along with contractor resources within the team.

• Collaborate with delivery team leads to identify quality and reliability issues in the early stages.

• Work standard business hours from Monday to Friday, totaling 8 hours each day.

• Occasionally travel to Humana offices for training sessions or meetings.

⛳️ Requirements

• Sponsorship is not available for this position.

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field is required.

• Over 5 years of experience in designing, developing, and testing software applications and/or infrastructure.

• At least 4 years of full stack software engineering experience, with a minimum of 1–2 years dedicated to platform reliability, software quality, or site reliability engineering.

• Practical experience in building and managing testing infrastructure, including automated test suites, integration testing, load testing, and end-to-end coverage.

• A solid understanding of observability practices, including structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting.

• Experience in designing and enforcing error handling and failure management patterns across distributed systems.

• Demonstrated capability to lead a small team or group through project delivery and manage contractor resources effectively.

• Proficient in working with Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

• Strong communication skills to convey quality risks to engineering leads and senior leadership.

• A genuine passion for contributing to an organization that prioritizes continuous improvement in consumer experiences.

• Familiarity with AI productivity tools such as Claude or Copilot is advantageous.

• Experience with Kubernetes-based platforms and container-level reliability and scaling is highly desirable.

• Knowledge of Kafka and event-driven architectures is a significant plus.

• A background in healthcare, insurance, or other regulated industries is beneficial.

• Experience with chaos engineering or fault injection testing is a valuable addition.

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD quality gates is considered a strong plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

• Comprehensive 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 coverage.

• Life insurance.

• Self-provided internet service for home or hybrid employees.

• Dedicated workspace to safeguard member PHI/HIPAA information.