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Join Humana as a Senior Full Stack Engineer and help shape digital health care experiences that make a meaningful impact for members, providers, and care teams. You will work with modern technologies in a collaborative environment where engineering excellence, scalability, accessibility, and security are central to every solution. In this role, you will partner closely with Product, UX, Research, Architects, and other engineering teams to deliver intuitive, reliable, and high-value digital capabilities. We are looking for experienced engineers who can lead by example, solve complex problems across the stack, and contribute to a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. If you are passionate about building technology that improves health care experiences at scale, Humana Digital offers an opportunity to do meaningful work with talented teams and modern engineering practices.

The Senior Full Stack Engineer is a pivotal member of the software development team, deeply engaged in every phase of the development lifecycle. This role encompasses a broad spectrum of responsibilities, including front-end development to create intuitive and responsive user interfaces, back-end development for building reliable and efficient server-side logic, seamless integration with databases, as well as management of network infrastructure and hosting environments. Additionally, the engineer focuses on enhancing user experience by optimizing system performance and usability across all platforms.

In this capacity, the Senior Full Stack Engineer independently tackles complex technical challenges, applying expert problem-solving skills and sound technical judgment to deliver high-quality solutions. The role involves making critical decisions on moderately complex to highly complex project elements, often without direct supervision. The engineer exercises considerable discretion in setting project objectives, choosing appropriate technologies, and devising innovative approaches to meet business goals.

Beyond technical execution, the Senior Full Stack Engineer influences the strategic direction of the engineering department by providing technical leadership, mentoring junior team members, and contributing to architectural and design discussions. Collaboration with cross-functional teams-including product management, quality assurance, and operations-is vital to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and to foster continuous improvement. The engineer remains adaptable to changing requirements and emerging industry best practices, ensuring that solutions are both current and forward-looking.

This role demands a balance of deep technical expertise, strategic vision, and leadership capabilities to drive the successful delivery of scalable, maintainable, and robust software solutions.

The Full Stack Software Engineer will:

• Work with a team of developers with deep experience in frontend technologies, distributed microservices, and full stack systems
• Work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies
• Work with cloud native stack, build on Azure, AWS, or Google, use technologies like Kubernetes
• Write effective REST APIs and technical documentation
• Write automated test cases to ensure correctness, responsiveness, and efficiency of the software product
• Provide expertise to influence project, initiative, and maintenance technical direction during discovery, planning, and implementation stages.
• Maintain modern development standards with best-practice approaches and development processes

Use your skills to make an impact

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• 6 or more years of experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software applications and/or infrastructure.
• Strong full stack engineering experience across modern front-end, back-end, and database technologies.
• 4 or more years of experience with modern front-end technologies and frameworks such asVue.js,ReactJS, TypeScript, andNode.js.
• 3 or more years of technical proficiency in one or more programming languages or platforms such asNode.js,Java,.NET, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining software solutions across all layers of the application stack, including user interface, user experience, server-side logic, APIs, databases, and hosting environments.
• Knowledge ofAzure Cloud Servicesor equivalent cloud platforms, including cloud-based application development, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such asJest,Mocha,Jasmine,React Testing Library,JUnit,NUnit, or similar, including automated unit test development and maintenance.
• Experience participating in all phases of the software development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, technical design, development, testing, deployment, maintenance, and production support.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to define technical requirements, align on solution design, and deliver project objectives.
• Experience conducting code reviews, applying engineering best practices, and providing technical guidance to peers and junior engineers.
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve complex technical issues across front-end, back-end, database, and infrastructure components.
• Strong understanding of security, performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability best practices.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Experience withAdobe Experience Platform
• Experience withGenerative AI toolsand AI platforms onGCP, Azure, or other cloud environments

Additional Information

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.

$106,900 - $147,000 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, 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 atHumana.comand atCenterWell.com.

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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.