At Humana, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology leader, we're transforming how millions of people experience care. As a Software Engineer 2, you'll play a key role in building modern, scalable solutions that directly improve health outcomes and consumer experiences. You'll join a highly collaborative, agile engineering organization where your ideas matter, your code ships fast, and your work has impact.
What You'll Do
Design, build, and deliver high-quality software solutions that power healthcare and wellness experiences.
Build and maintain mission-critical APIs that power Humana's Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) ecosystem, ensuring our members, partners, and internal systems can access accurate, real-time data at scale.
Develop and optimize high-performance backend services, with a focus on reliability, security, and maintainability.
Work hands-on across the full development lifecycle, coding, testing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying production-ready systems.
Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity, accelerate coding tasks, enhance documentation quality, support testing activities, and improve overall engineering effectiveness.
Utilize enterprise-approved AI solutions such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, and similar tools to assist with code generation, code review, troubleshooting, refactoring, and knowledge discovery while maintaining engineering quality and accountability for delivered solutions.
Raise the bar on engineering quality, helping develop robust testing strategies, tooling, automation, AI-assisted development practices, and engineering standards.
Investigate and resolve complex technical issues, identifying root causes and implementing long-term fixes.
Collaborate within a cross-functional agile team, partnering with product, architecture, and QA to create solutions aligned with business and consumer needs.
Apply your engineering expertise to make independent decisions and solve ambiguous problems with minimal guidance.
Seek opportunities to modernize legacy components, improve system resilience and performance, enhance backend observability and developer experience, and identify ways AI and automation can accelerate modernization efforts and reduce technical debt.
Contribute to an engineering culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and relentless improvement of the consumer journey.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 3–5 years of hands-on experience in software development, systems analysis, or application programming
- Strong coding skills and familiarity with modern development practices (CI/CD, cloud platforms, automated testing, agile methodologies)
- Experience using modern developer productivity tools, including AI-assisted coding, documentation, and testing solutions
- Ability to effectively leverage AI-generated recommendations while exercising sound engineering judgment, code ownership, and quality standards
- A passion for building elegant, reliable, user-centric software
- A growth mindset and a desire to contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on improving healthcare
Preferred Qualifications
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience with enterprise-scale cloud technologies, distributed systems, or microservices
- Exposure to healthcare, wellness, or regulated industries (not required)
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT Enterprise, or similar enterprise-grade development platforms
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve software development, automated testing, technical documentation, debugging, or application modernization efforts
- Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate learning, onboarding, troubleshooting, and delivery of software solutions
Additional Information
Why Humana?
At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:
Work-Life Balance
Generous PTO package
Health benefits effective day 1
Annual Incentive Plan
401K - Excellent company match
Well-being program
Paid Volunteer Time Off
If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.
Work-At-Home Requirements
To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria:
At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership.
Employees who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.
SSN Alert Statement
Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from [email protected] with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.
Work at Home Requirements: To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees must meet the following criteria: At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is required; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested. In certain roles, the minimum recommended internet speed required by Humana may not be sufficient for business needs. Humana reserves the right to require associates to upgrade their internet service if necessary. Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information.Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
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, 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
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field
- 3-5 years of hands-on experience in software development, systems analysis, or application programming
- Strong coding skills and familiarity with modern development practices (CI/CD, cloud platforms, automated testing, agile methodologies)
- Experience using modern developer productivity tools, including AI-assisted coding, documentation, and testing solutions
- Ability to effectively leverage AI-generated recommendations while exercising sound engineering judgment and code ownership
- Work from a dedicated home workspace that protects member PHI / complies with HIPAA
- Minimum home internet: 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload (may be required to upgrade if needed)
- Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- Experience with enterprise-scale cloud technologies, distributed systems, or microservices
- Exposure to healthcare, wellness, or regulated industries
- Familiarity with AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, ChatGPT Enterprise
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve development, automated testing, documentation, debugging, or application modernization
- Experience using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate onboarding, learning, troubleshooting, and delivery
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.
