Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that power exceptional member and provider experiences.
The Lead Software Engineer will join Humana’s Enterprise Platform Quality Engineering organization and help build and evolve reusable platform capabilities that enable delivery teams across the enterprise to ship software with greater speed, reliability, and confidence. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role focused on building internal products and services that support automation-first engineering, quality intelligence, standards/guardrails, and seamless integration into modern CI/CD pipelines.
This role partners closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Security to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Platform Engineering & Product Development
Design, build, and enhance full stack applications and services that power enterprise quality engineering capabilities (e.g., dashboards, quality insights, enablement tooling, automation accelerators).
Develop reusable components, APIs, and shared services to enable standardized quality patterns across teams.
Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness (monitoring, logging, alerting, supportability).
Apply UI/UX best practices to create seamless, intuitive experiences for engineers and quality professionals, ensuring usability and adoption.
Translate executive vision and business requirements into technical design, collaborating closely with AVP, Quality Engineering and other stakeholders.
Build modern, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that improve engineer experience and simplify interaction with platform services and quality data.
Partner with enterprise platform teams to align solutions with established engineering enablement capabilities, including Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube where applicable.
Design and implement integrations that support modern software delivery workflows, including CI/CD, source control, feature management, code quality, and engineering reporting needs.
Support development of dashboards, reporting capabilities, and platform views that surface actionable quality and delivery insights for engineering teams and leadership.
Ensure platform solutions align with enterprise cloud, security, and engineering standards, including approved design patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails.
Continuously improve platform usability, maintainability, and adoption through feedback loops, iterative development, and engineering best practices.
Technical Leadership & Team Guidance
Provide technical leadership across assigned workstreams, helping guide design decisions, engineering practices, and solution delivery.
Offer day-to-day supervisory guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers on the team.
Lead code reviews and promote high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
Help break down work, clarify technical requirements, and support successful execution across team members.
Partner with leadership to identify risks, dependencies, and delivery considerations and help drive resolution.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership
Work closely with the AVP, Quality Engineering, and other leaders to help bring strategic platform vision to life through practical, scalable engineering solutions.
Collaborate with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and product-aligned teams to ensure alignment on standards, integration points, and delivery priorities.
Communicate technical designs, tradeoffs, progress, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Quality, Standards & Enablement
Help embed quality engineering standards and guardrails into platform capabilities and developer workflows.
Support reusable engineering patterns that improve consistency, accelerate delivery, and reduce fragmentation across teams.
Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and usage guidance to improve adoption and time-to-productivity for platform consumers.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with full stack development experience.
Experience designing, developing, and supporting production-grade web applications, APIs, and backend services.
Experience with front-end development and UI/UX implementation, including responsive, accessible, and user-centered design.
Experience translating business requirements and strategic direction into technical solutions.
Experience working within modern software delivery environments using Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and supervisory guidance to other team members.
Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience building internal platforms, developer portals, engineering enablement tools, or quality engineering products.
Experience with enterprise engineering tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube.
Familiarity with cloud-native engineering patterns, microservices, APIs, containers, and event-driven architectures.
Experience with engineering dashboards, reporting tools, and data visualization solutions.
Familiarity with enterprise cloud standards, security guardrails, and reference architectures in regulated environments.
Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
Exposure to quality engineering, test automation, and developer productivity platforms.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides medical, dental and vision benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan, time off (including paid time off, company and personal holidays, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with full stack development experience.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting production-grade web applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Experience with front-end development and UI/UX implementation, including responsive, accessible, and user-centered design.
- Experience translating business requirements and strategic direction into technical solutions.
- Experience working within modern software delivery environments using Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and supervisory guidance to other team members.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and leadership teams.
Humana Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Humana and has not been reviewed or approved by Humana.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, supplemental health, and long-term care insurance are offered alongside on-site/virtual wellness resources and weekly paid well-being time, indicating a whole-person focus.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid PTO and holidays, volunteer time, and formal leave options such as parental and caregiver time provide broad time-away support. Adoption assistance and lactation rooms extend coverage for key life events.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match anchors long-term savings. Employer-matched emergency savings programs complement retirement planning.
Humana Insights
What We Do
At Humana, our cultural foundation is aligned to helping members achieve their best health by delivering personalized, simplified, whole-person healthcare experiences. Recognizing healthcare needs continue to evolve for each person, for each family and for each community, Humana continuously creates innovative solutions and resources that help people live their healthiest lives on their terms –when and where they need it. Our employees are at the heart of making this happen and that’s why we are dedicated to building an organization of dynamic talent whose experience and passion center on putting the customer first.
