Humana · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer - Next Best Action
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$107K/yr - $147K/yr
6+ years expHumana Inc. is committed to putting health first, and they are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain action and policy platforms for real-time decisioning. The role involves developing microservices, designing resilient database schemas, and integrating enterprise rules systems to enhance productivity and maintainability.
Health CareHealth InsuranceInsuranceVenture Capital
Responsibilities
Architect, implement, and operate microservices that deliver:
Action and variant metadata
Context-aware policy and eligibility evaluation
Versioned, read-optimized APIs for high-performance runtime consumption
Guarantee that services are:
Highly available, with low latency
Horizontally scalable for increased demand
Backward compatible to support safe evolution and upgrades
Apply industry best practices for API design, schema evolution, service isolation, and secure integration
Design, deploy, and maintain resilient database schemas to support:
Comprehensive action and variant catalogs
Versioning, lifecycle management, and effective dating
Rule bindings and complex metadata relationships
Select and operate appropriate data stores (relational, document, key-value) tailored to workload and scalability requirements
Implement and monitor:
Schema migration and backward compatibility strategies
Indexing and query optimization for performance
Data integrity, consistency, and reliability
Auditability and traceability for compliance and governance
Integrate and manage enterprise-grade rules engines to support:
Eligibility, constraints, and business policies
Suppression, cooldowns, exclusions, and other operational guardrails
Policy-driven allow/deny logic
Work with technologies such as Drools (DRL/DMN), IBM ODM, DMN-based services, OPA/Rego, or similar
Ensure rule execution is deterministic, versioned, stateless, and free from unintended side effects
Utilize AI-powered and agentic tools to:
Generate and refactor database schemas and service logic
Streamline rule authoring, validation, and ongoing refactoring
Detect and address conflicting or redundant rules early in the development cycle
Automatically produce comprehensive test cases and explore edge scenarios
Apply AI responsibly to reduce manual effort while safeguarding clarity, correctness, and strong governance
Develop automated tests for:
Database migrations and schema changes
Service-level contracts and API backward compatibility
Rules behavior, precedence, and edge cases
Ensure platforms are fully observable and resilient, featuring:
Structured logging, metrics, and alerting
Clear error handling, fallback strategies, and robust incident management
Support audit and compliance requirements through traceable and reproducible system behavior
Work closely with platform, data, and machine learning teams to maintain clean integration points and shared standards
Participate actively in architecture and design reviews to uphold platform quality
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and best practices
Qualification
Required
Minimum 6 years of experience in backend or platform engineering
Proven ability to build: Microservices and REST/gRPC APIs, Database-backed systems with complex, evolving schemas, Deterministic rules or policy-driven platforms
Direct experience integrating enterprise rules engines (Drools, ODM, DMN, OPA, or similar)
Strong proficiency in Java and/or Python
Experience using AI-assisted development tools for increased productivity and accuracy
Preferred
Experience designing versioned schemas and backward-compatible APIs
Knowledge of high-throughput, low-latency architectures
Familiarity with systems requiring explainability, auditability, and strong compliance
Background in regulated or high-compliance domains
Benefits
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
Company
Humana
Humana is a health insurance provider for individuals, families, and businesses.
10001+ employees
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Jim Rechtin
CEO and President
Colin Drylie
Senior Vice President, Experience Transformation
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