Principal Software Engineer

Humana

Principal Software Engineer designing, coding, and deploying software applications. Advising executives on engineering strategy and technology modernization opportunities.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • Kentucky, Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $156,600 - $215,400 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a hands-on software engineering advisor to IT executives
Advise SVP and executive technology leaders on engineering strategy, platform health, delivery risks, architectural decisions, and modernization opportunities
Translate complex software engineering issues into clear business, risk, funding, and execution recommendations
Act as a player by actively building and improving software
Personally contribute to critical engineering work by designing, coding, testing, reviewing, and deploying capabilities across enterprise platforms, integration layers, and production systems
Use modern development practices, including agentic AI-enabled coding where appropriate, to accelerate delivery and improve system reliability
Coach developers and raise engineering standards
Mentor associate engineers, contractors, and delivery teams through code reviews, pairing, technical design discussions, and best-practice coaching
Set expectations for clean code, small pull requests, meaningful commits, automated testing, secure coding, and efficient delivery practices
Drive engineering alignment across complex delivery teams
Coordinate engineering outcomes across matrixed internal teams, vendors, architects, product owners, and business partners
Ensure solutions are technically sound, architecturally consistent, secure, scalable, and aligned to enterprise standards and long-term platform strategy
Lead platform roadmap, technical investment, and transformation discipline
Partner with business and IT leadership to define the product/platform roadmap, identify funding needs, prioritize engineering investments, and challenge decisions that create technical debt, operational risk, or misalignment with enterprise transformation goals
Exercise the judgment and credibility to say "no" when needed to protect long-term platform health

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in a related technical field
10 or more years of technical experience
2 - 5 years of project/people leadership
Must be passionate about contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer experiences
1+ years exp building and optimizing AI-driven pipelines

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

Software DesignCodingTestingAutomated TestingSecure CodingIntegration Layer DevelopmentPlatform ModernizationAgile Development PracticesCode ReviewTechnical Architecture

Soft Skills

CommunicationJudgmentCollaborationCoachingProblem-Solving

Certifications

Bachelor's Degree in Related Technical Field