
Lead Software Engineer – Next Best Action
Humana
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Colorado • Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $129,300 - $177,800 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Architect and deliver foundational services for real-time recommendations
- Own design and implementation of State Machine and Transactional Outbox
- Ensure robust, traceable, and high-performance solutions
- Collaborate with platform, data, and product teams
- Mentor peers and set technical standards
- Lead design reviews and establish development standards
- Utilize AI tools for engineering processes
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years in backend/platform service development; at least 3 years in a senior or lead role overseeing mission-critical systems.
- Advanced proficiency in Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and/or Java/Kotlin.
- Direct experience with Transactional Outbox patterns, idempotent consumers, and exactly-once delivery mechanisms.
- Strong expertise in relational modeling (Postgres/MySQL), query optimization, and partitioning.
- Skilled in TypeORM (Node.js) and/or JPA/Hibernate/jOOQ (Java/Kotlin); experienced in zero-downtime migrations.
- Deep understanding of transactions, isolation levels, locking, and backpressure in high-throughput environments.
- Experience developing contract-first APIs (OpenAPI), managing schema versioning, and ensuring backward compatibility.
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 and many other opportunities
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Hard Skills & Tools
Node.jsTypeScriptPythonJavaKotlinTransactional OutboxPostgresMySQLTypeORMJPA
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationleadershipdesign reviewssetting technical standards