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Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that power exceptional member and provider experiences.
The Lead Software Engineer will join Humana’s Enterprise Platform Quality Engineering organization and help build and evolve reusable platform capabilities that enable delivery teams across the enterprise to ship software with greater speed, reliability, and confidence. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role focused on building internal products and services that support automation-first engineering, quality intelligence, standards/guardrails, and seamless integration into modern CI/CD pipelines.
This role partners closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Security to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Platform Engineering & Product Development
- Design, build, and enhance full stack applications and services that power enterprise quality engineering capabilities (e.g., dashboards, quality insights, enablement tooling, automation accelerators).
- Develop reusable components, APIs, and shared services to enable standardized quality patterns across teams.
- Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness (monitoring, logging, alerting, supportability).
- Apply UI/UX best practices to create seamless, intuitive experiences for engineers and quality professionals, ensuring usability and adoption.
- Translate executive vision and business requirements into technical design, collaborating closely with AVP, Quality Engineering and other stakeholders.
- Build modern, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that improve engineer experience and simplify interaction with platform services and quality data.
- Partner with enterprise platform teams to align solutions with established engineering enablement capabilities, including Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube where applicable.
- Design and implement integrations that support modern software delivery workflows, including CI/CD, source control, feature management, code quality, and engineering reporting needs.
- Support development of dashboards, reporting capabilities, and platform views that surface actionable quality and delivery insights for engineering teams and leadership.
- Ensure platform solutions align with enterprise cloud, security, and engineering standards, including approved design patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails.
- Continuously improve platform usability, maintainability, and adoption through feedback loops, iterative development, and engineering best practices.
Technical Leadership & Team Guidance
- Provide technical leadership across assigned workstreams, helping guide design decisions, engineering practices, and solution delivery.
- Offer day-to-day supervisory guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers on the team.
- Lead code reviews and promote high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
- Help break down work, clarify technical requirements, and support successful execution across team members.
- Partner with leadership to identify risks, dependencies, and delivery considerations and help drive resolution.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership
- Work closely with the AVP, Quality Engineering, and other leaders to help bring strategic platform vision to life through practical, scalable engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and product-aligned teams to ensure alignment on standards, integration points, and delivery priorities.
- Communicate technical designs, tradeoffs, progress, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Quality, Standards & Enablement
- Help embed quality engineering standards and guardrails into platform capabilities and developer workflows.
- Support reusable engineering patterns that improve consistency, accelerate delivery, and reduce fragmentation across teams.
- Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and usage guidance to improve adoption and time-to-productivity for platform consumers.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with full stack development experience.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting production-grade web applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Experience with front-end development and UI/UX implementation, including responsive, accessible, and user-centered design.
- Experience translating business requirements and strategic direction into technical solutions.
- Experience working within modern software delivery environments using Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and supervisory guidance to other team members.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building internal platforms, developer portals, engineering enablement tools, or quality engineering products.
- Experience with enterprise engineering tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube.
- Familiarity with cloud-native engineering patterns, microservices, APIs, containers, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with engineering dashboards, reporting tools, and data visualization solutions.
- Familiarity with enterprise cloud standards, security guardrails, and reference architectures in regulated environments.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
- Exposure to quality engineering, test automation, and developer productivity platforms.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$129,300 - $177,800 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides 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.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
Become a part of our caring community
Humana is committed to helping people achieve their best health by delivering innovative technology solutions that power exceptional member and provider experiences.
The Lead Software Engineer will join Humana’s Enterprise Platform Quality Engineering organization and help build and evolve reusable platform capabilities that enable delivery teams across the enterprise to ship software with greater speed, reliability, and confidence. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role focused on building internal products and services that support automation-first engineering, quality intelligence, standards/guardrails, and seamless integration into modern CI/CD pipelines.
This role partners closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, and Security to deliver scalable, secure, and developer-friendly solutions.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Platform Engineering & Product Development
- Design, build, and enhance full stack applications and services that power enterprise quality engineering capabilities (e.g., dashboards, quality insights, enablement tooling, automation accelerators).
- Develop reusable components, APIs, and shared services to enable standardized quality patterns across teams.
- Contribute to platform reliability, scalability, performance, and operational readiness (monitoring, logging, alerting, supportability).
- Apply UI/UX best practices to create seamless, intuitive experiences for engineers and quality professionals, ensuring usability and adoption.
- Translate executive vision and business requirements into technical design, collaborating closely with AVP, Quality Engineering and other stakeholders.
- Build modern, responsive, and accessible user interfaces that improve engineer experience and simplify interaction with platform services and quality data.
- Partner with enterprise platform teams to align solutions with established engineering enablement capabilities, including Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube where applicable.
- Design and implement integrations that support modern software delivery workflows, including CI/CD, source control, feature management, code quality, and engineering reporting needs.
- Support development of dashboards, reporting capabilities, and platform views that surface actionable quality and delivery insights for engineering teams and leadership.
- Ensure platform solutions align with enterprise cloud, security, and engineering standards, including approved design patterns, reference architectures, and guardrails.
- Continuously improve platform usability, maintainability, and adoption through feedback loops, iterative development, and engineering best practices.
Technical Leadership & Team Guidance
- Provide technical leadership across assigned workstreams, helping guide design decisions, engineering practices, and solution delivery.
- Offer day-to-day supervisory guidance, mentorship, and support to engineers on the team.
- Lead code reviews and promote high standards for code quality, testing, documentation, and maintainability.
- Help break down work, clarify technical requirements, and support successful execution across team members.
- Partner with leadership to identify risks, dependencies, and delivery considerations and help drive resolution.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership
- Work closely with the AVP, Quality Engineering, and other leaders to help bring strategic platform vision to life through practical, scalable engineering solutions.
- Collaborate with Software Engineering, Architecture, Platform Engineering, DevOps, Security, and product-aligned teams to ensure alignment on standards, integration points, and delivery priorities.
- Communicate technical designs, tradeoffs, progress, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Quality, Standards & Enablement
- Help embed quality engineering standards and guardrails into platform capabilities and developer workflows.
- Support reusable engineering patterns that improve consistency, accelerate delivery, and reduce fragmentation across teams.
- Contribute to documentation, onboarding materials, and usage guidance to improve adoption and time-to-productivity for platform consumers.
Use your skills to make an impact
Required Qualifications
- 4+ years of professional experience in software engineering with full stack development experience.
- Experience designing, developing, and supporting production-grade web applications, APIs, and backend services.
- Experience with front-end development and UI/UX implementation, including responsive, accessible, and user-centered design.
- Experience translating business requirements and strategic direction into technical solutions.
- Experience working within modern software delivery environments using Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD practices.
- Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including testing, code quality, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Ability to provide technical leadership, mentorship, and supervisory guidance to other team members.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with the ability to work effectively across technical and leadership teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building internal platforms, developer portals, engineering enablement tools, or quality engineering products.
- Experience with enterprise engineering tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube.
- Familiarity with cloud-native engineering patterns, microservices, APIs, containers, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with engineering dashboards, reporting tools, and data visualization solutions.
- Familiarity with enterprise cloud standards, security guardrails, and reference architectures in regulated environments.
- Experience in healthcare, insurance, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
- Exposure to quality engineering, test automation, and developer productivity platforms.
Travel: While this is a remote position, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
Scheduled Weekly Hours
40
Pay Range
The compensation range below reflects a good faith estimate of starting base pay for full time (40 hours per week) employment at the time of posting. The pay range may be higher or lower based on geographic location and individual pay will vary based on demonstrated job related skills, knowledge, experience, education, certifications, etc.
$129,300 - $177,800 per year
This job is eligible for a bonus incentive plan. This incentive opportunity is based upon company and/or individual performance.
Description of Benefits
Humana, Inc. and its affiliated subsidiaries (collectively, “Humana”) offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. Associate benefits are designed to encourage personal wellness and smart healthcare decisions for you and your family while also knowing your life extends outside of work. Among our benefits, Humana provides 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.
About us
About Humana: Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) is a leading U.S. healthcare company. Through our Humana insurance services and our CenterWell healthcare services, we make it easier for the millions of people we serve to achieve their best health – delivering the care and service they need, when they need it. These efforts are leading to a better quality of life for people with Medicare and Medicaid, families, individuals, military service personnel, and communities at large. Learn more about what we offer at Humana.com and at CenterWell.com.
Equal Opportunity Employer
It is the policy of Humana not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. It is also the policy of Humana to take affirmative action, in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and VEVRAA, to employ and to advance in employment individuals with disability or protected veteran status, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, upgrading, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.
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Align your skills with Humana's tech stack
Humana's engineering teams concentrate on cloud-native development, data engineering, and enterprise health platforms. Tailoring your resume to reflect experience in AWS, Python, or Java signals direct fit and reduces friction in the sponsorship conversation.
Identify roles tied to enterprise systems
Software Engineer openings connected to Humana's core insurance and benefits infrastructure tend to move through sponsorship more predictably. Filter for roles mentioning backend systems, data pipelines, or platform engineering rather than client-facing or contractor-adjacent positions.
Clarify your visa category before the offer stage
H-1B and TN eligibility hinge on how the role is defined in the Labor Condition Application. Ask the recruiter whether the position is classified as a specialty occupation with a specific degree requirement before you reach the offer stage.
Use Migrate Mate to surface active sponsorship roles
Not every Software Engineer posting at Humana is tied to an active sponsorship pipeline. Use Migrate Mate to filter roles where Humana has a verified sponsorship track record, so you're applying where your visa status is already expected.
Prepare OPT STEM extension documentation early
Humana is an E-Verify participant, which is required for F-1 STEM OPT authorization. Confirm your degree and role qualify for the 24-month STEM extension before your initial OPT window closes, and give HR the I-983 training plan well ahead of the deadline.
Understand the PERM timeline for Green Card sponsorship
EB-2 and EB-3 paths through Humana require a PERM labor certification filed with DOL, which can take a year or more before an I-140 petition is even submitted. Raise Green Card interest during the offer negotiation, not after you've already started.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Humana sponsor H-1B visas for Software Engineers?
Yes, Humana sponsors H-1B visas for Software Engineer roles. The role must qualify as a specialty occupation under USCIS standards, which typically requires a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. Humana files both initial H-1B petitions and extensions, and the company participates in E-Verify, which is a standard requirement for H-1B employers.
Which visa types does Humana commonly use for Software Engineers?
Humana sponsors H-1B, TN, and F-1 OPT and CPT for Software Engineers, and supports EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card pathways for longer-term sponsorship. TN status is available to Canadian and Mexican nationals in qualifying engineering roles. F-1 STEM OPT is viable because Humana is an E-Verify participant, which is a prerequisite for the 24-month extension.
How do I apply for Software Engineer jobs at Humana?
You can browse and apply for Software Engineer positions at Humana directly through their careers portal. To find roles where Humana has an active sponsorship history for international candidates, use Migrate Mate, which filters listings by verified visa sponsorship track record. When applying, confirm in your cover materials that you require sponsorship so the recruiter can route your application appropriately from the start.
What qualifications does Humana expect for Software Engineer roles?
Most Software Engineer roles at Humana require a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical field. Proficiency in cloud platforms such as AWS, backend languages like Java or Python, and familiarity with agile development practices are commonly expected. For senior positions, experience with healthcare data systems, APIs, or enterprise platform architecture strengthens your application considerably.
How do I know if Humana will sponsor me for a Green Card?
Green Card sponsorship through Humana follows the PERM labor certification process filed with DOL, after which Humana submits an I-140 petition to USCIS. This is typically discussed during or after the offer stage, not guaranteed in the job posting. Raise the topic directly with your recruiter or HR contact once you have an offer, and clarify whether the role is budgeted for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship.