Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Humana is a U.S. healthcare company serving members through insurance and healthcare services. The company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to architect, develop, and maintain scalable action and policy platforms for real-time personalized decisioning. The role focuses on microservices, database schema design, enterprise rules-engine integration, AI-assisted engineering, testing, reliability, governance, and technical leadership.
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
Skills
- 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
- Work Style:** Remote/Hybrid - Preferably Boston, MA
- 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
- 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
- This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
- 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
- Remote/Hybrid work arrangement
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