Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana is a healthcare company seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer for Team Caliber. The role builds and maintains the NBA platform’s business rules engine using Java, Drools, Spring, REST APIs, and Kafka, with a focus on eligibility, compliance, correctness, performance, and reliability. The engineer will collaborate with Product and compliance teams while developing and testing production-ready services in a PHI-handling environment.
Responsibilities
- Rules engine development — Design, build, and maintain business rules in Java and Drools that govern eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent
- Backend services — Build and own the Java/Spring services and REST APIs that expose the rules engine to the rest of the platform
- Event integration — Produce and consume Kafka events to connect the rules engine to upstream signals and downstream decisioning and activation
- Correctness and testing — Write thorough tests for rule logic and services; treat rule correctness as a first-class, auditable concern
- Performance — Keep rule evaluation fast and predictable as the ruleset and traffic grow
- Quality — Run and participate in code reviews, uphold engineering standards, and ship production-ready code in a PHI-handling environment
- Collaboration — Partner with Product and compliance to turn business and regulatory requirements into clear, maintainable rules
Skills
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Java and Spring/Spring Boot skills
- Experience building and maintaining backend services and REST APIs in production
- Comfort designing and reasoning about complex conditional/business logic
- Working knowledge of event-driven integration and Kafka producer/consumer patterns
- Experience operating on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD
- Strong testing discipline and attention to correctness
- Clear communicator across engineering, product, and compliance
- Qualified candidates are required to currently live in, or be willing to move to, a commutable distance for a hybrid (~3 days in-office) work arrangement
- Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required
- Very minimal travel might be required for training, meetings, and/or conferences
- 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
- Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information
- Hands-on experience with the Drools rules engine or another business rules management system (BRMS)
- Familiarity with front-end work (React/TypeScript) to support rule-authoring or admin interfaces
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry where business rules encode compliance requirements
- Familiarity with Helm/Terraform for Kubernetes deployment
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan
- Paid time off
- Company holidays
- Personal holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Paid caregiver leave
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Life insurance
- Bonus incentive plan based upon company and/or individual performance
- Remote/hybrid work arrangement
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