Senior Software Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, implement, and manage microservices that provide action and variant metadata.

• Create context-aware services for policy and eligibility evaluation.

• Develop versioned, read-optimized APIs to ensure high-performance runtime access.

• Guarantee high availability, low latency, horizontal scalability, and backward compatibility.

• Employ best practices in API design, schema evolution, service isolation, and secure integration.

• Design, deploy, and maintain robust database schemas for catalogs, versioning, lifecycle management, effective dating, rule bindings, and metadata relationships.

• Choose and operate relational, document, and key-value data storage solutions.

• Carry out schema migration, indexing, query optimization, and ensure data integrity, consistency, reliability, auditability, and traceability.

• Integrate and manage enterprise rules engines for eligibility, constraints, policies, suppressions, cooldowns, exclusions, and allow/deny logic.

• Ensure that rule execution is deterministic, versioned, stateless, and free from unintended side effects.

• Utilize AI-powered tools to generate and refactor schemas and service logic, streamline rule authoring, detect conflicting rules, produce tests, and explore edge scenarios.

• Create automated tests for migrations, schema changes, service contracts, API compatibility, rule behavior, precedence, and edge cases.

• Construct observable and resilient platforms featuring structured logging, metrics, alerting, error handling, fallbacks, and incident management.

• Facilitate audit and compliance needs through traceable and reproducible system behavior.

• Collaborate with platform, data, and machine learning teams.

• Engage in architecture and design reviews.

• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the establishment of technical standards and best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 6 years of experience in backend or platform engineering.

• Demonstrated ability to develop microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.

• Experience in building database-backed systems with complex, evolving schemas.

• Experience in creating deterministic rules or policy-driven platforms.

• Direct experience with integrating enterprise rules engines such as Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA, or equivalent.

• Strong expertise in Java and/or Python.

• Experience with AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity and accuracy.

• Preferred: experience in designing versioned schemas and backward-compatible APIs.

• Preferred: knowledge of high-throughput, low-latency architectures.

• Preferred: understanding of explainability, auditability, and stringent compliance requirements.

• Preferred: background in regulated or high-compliance sectors.

• Reliable home internet connection with a minimum of 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload.

• Dedicated workspace that minimizes interruptions to safeguard member PHI/HIPAA information.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Comprehensive medical benefits.

• Dental coverage.

• Vision coverage.

• 401(k) retirement savings plan.

• Paid time off.

• Company-observed holidays.

• Personal holidays.

• Paid parental leave.

• Paid caregiver leave.

• Short-term disability insurance.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance coverage.

• Dedicated home workspace arrangement.

• Flexible remote/hybrid work options.

• Occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings.