Senior Software Engineer

Humana

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Closes in 3 days Hybrid

Quick summary

Work type
Hybrid
Location
Washington, DCLouisville, KYDenver, CODallas, TXFt. Lauderdale, FL
Salary
$106,900–$147,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
25 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 30, 2026 (soon)

Market check

Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

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This role $127k
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This role pays less than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $149,500–$184,900 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $127k versus about $167k 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 61 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $129,300–$177,800 across 27 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer

The Senior Software Engineer - NBA joins Team Caliber to build and maintain the NBA platform's business rules engine. This backend-leaning full stack role involves designing and maintaining business rules in Java and Drools that govern member eligibility, suppression, frequency capping, and consent. The engineer will build Java/Spring services and REST APIs, while producing and consuming Kafka events to connect the rules engine to upstream signals and downstream decisioning. Key responsibilities include writing well-tested code, ensuring rule correctness in a PHI-handling environment, and managing performance as traffic grows. Required skills include Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and cloud infrastructure like Azure or Kubernetes. The role solves complex technical problems by ensuring precise, deterministic state transitions and reliable side effects within a regulated business context.

What does a Software Engineer earn in District Of Columbia?

Median $215000 from 45 postings across 11 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Design, build, and maintain business rules in Java and Drools for eligibility and compliance.
  • Build and own Java/Spring services and REST APIs to expose the rules engine.
  • Produce and consume Kafka events to connect the rules engine to upstream and downstream systems.
  • Write thorough tests for rule logic to ensure correctness and auditability.
  • Optimize rule evaluation performance to remain fast and predictable as traffic grows.
  • Participate in code reviews and uphold engineering standards in a PHI-handling environment.
  • Translate business and regulatory requirements into clear, maintainable technical rules.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with strong Java and Spring/Spring Boot skills.
  • Experience building and maintaining backend services and REST APIs in production.
  • Working knowledge of event-driven integration and Kafka producer/consumer patterns.
  • Experience operating on cloud infrastructure (Azure or equivalent) with containers/Kubernetes and CI/CD.
  • Experience with the Drools rules engine or another business rules management system (preferred).
  • Familiarity with front-end work in React/TypeScript (preferred).
  • Experience in healthcare, insurance, or other regulated industries where business rules encode compliance (preferred).

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