Lead Full Stack Engineer

Humana

Confirmed live 2 days ago High trust
Remote Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Remote
Location
Boston, MA
Salary
$155,200–$213,400 / yr
Posted
22 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live 2 days ago
Closes
Sep 30, 2026

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $198k
This role $184k
$147k most similar roles pay here $233k

This role pays less than 75% of similar roles. Most pay $184,900–$211,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $184k versus about $198k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

Employer

About Humana

Humana Inc. is a leading American for-profit health insurance company based in Louisville, Kentucky, specializing in Medicare Advantage plans.

Humana currently has 20 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 20 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Lead Full Stack Engineer

Lead Full Stack Engineer - NBA joins the Platform Quality and Reliability team to ensure the operational health of the platform after development. This hands-on individual contributor role focuses on making features production-ready by owning uptime, performance, and resilience across various services. The engineer will build and maintain automated testing infrastructure, manage observability and logging stacks, and design error handling patterns for distributed systems. They will also manage contractor resources and coordinate with delivery pods to identify bottlenecks before they become incidents. The role requires proficiency in a polyglot stack including Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript, along with experience in Kubernetes-based platforms, Kafka, and event-driven architectures. Candidates must be skilled in structured logging, distributed tracing, and CI/CD quality gates while utilizing AI productivity tools to accelerate testing and debugging within the platform's technical ecosystem.

What you'll do

  • Write and ship production code as a hands-on individual contributor to ensure platform stability.
  • Manage uptime, performance, and resilience across all platform services to resolve bottlenecks before they become incidents.
  • Build and maintain automated testing infrastructure across unit, integration, and end-to-end layers.
  • Own the logging, alerting, and monitoring stack to provide full visibility into production systems.
  • Design and enforce standardized error handling patterns across distributed system components.
  • Evaluate platform components under load to ensure scalability for increasing member volume and data throughput.
  • Define and enforce quality gates that delivery pods must meet before handing off code to production.
  • Manage contractor resources and oversee their work to ensure high standards of quality and reliability.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
  • 8+ years of progressive tech experience as a senior developer in large tech projects.
  • 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience with 1-2 years focused on platform reliability, quality, or SRE.
  • 2+ years of project leadership experience.
  • Hands-on experience building and owning testing infrastructure including automated suites, integration, load, and end-to-end coverage.
  • Strong understanding of observability practices such as structured logging, distributed tracing, metrics, and alerting.
  • Experience designing and enforcing error handling and failure management patterns across distributed systems.
  • Ability to work across a polyglot stack including Java, Python, Node.js, and TypeScript.

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