Sr Software Engineer

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Humana Wellness IT is seeking a Sr Software Engineer who is smart, curious and loves the challenge of solving problems that improve people's lives. The Sr Software Engineer designs, develops, and delivers high‑quality software solutions that address complex business and technical challenges. This role requires deep hands‑on development experience combined with a strong understanding of application and system architecture, ensuring solutions align with enterprise standards while remaining practical, scalable, and maintainable.

The Sr Software Engineer is responsible for designing, developing, and delivering high‑quality software solutions that support complex business needs. This role is highly hands‑on and requires strong proficiency in modern web and cloud technologies, distributed systems, and API‑driven architectures, combined with a solid understanding of application and system design.

The Sr Software Engineer performs technical planning, contributes to system and application design, and builds scalable, reliable, and secure solutions using established engineering best practices. This role independently makes decisions on moderately complex to complex technical challenges, exercises significant autonomy in implementation, and collaborates closely with architects, product owners, and cross‑functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain production‑grade applications using Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Build responsive and maintainable user interfaces using Vue.js or similar modern frameworks
• Design, develop, and consume RESTful APIs and GraphQL APIs to support scalable and loosely coupled systems
• Build and integrate cloud‑native solutions on Microsoft Azure, leveraging appropriate platform and application services
• Design and implement event‑driven and distributed systems, including Kafka‑based messaging and streaming solutions
• Contribute to architectural decisions, evaluating technical trade‑offs to ensure scalability, performance, security, and maintainability
• Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards while remaining delivery‑focused and pragmatic
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues across application and infrastructure layers
• Provide technical leadership through code reviews, design discussions, and mentorship of less‑experienced engineers
• Collaborate effectively with cross‑functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
• Influence departmental technical direction and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives

Required Qualifications

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, testing, and maintaining software applications and/or supporting infrastructure
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience developing applications using Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript
• Experience building modern, maintainable front‑end applications using Vue.js or equivalent frameworks
• Strong experience designing and implementing RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Demonstrated experience building, deploying, and operating cloud‑based solutions on Microsoft Azure
• Working knowledge of Kafka or similar distributed messaging and event‑streaming platforms
• Solid understanding of application architecture, system integration, and distributed system design principles
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to evaluate complex technical challenges
• Proven ability to work independently on complex initiatives with minimal direction
• Strong leadership, collaboration, and excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Passion for contributing to an organization focused on continuously improving consumer and customer experiences

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Microsoft Azure cloud certifications demonstrating advanced knowledge of cloud architecture, development, or operations
• Experience working in Agile development environments, including Scrum or Kanban, with a focus on iterative delivery and continuous improvement.

Work-At-Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates must meet the following criteria:

• At minimum, a download speed of 25 Mbps and an upload speed of 10 Mbps is recommended; wireless, wired cable or DSL connection is suggested
• Satellite, cellular and microwave connection can be used only if approved by leadership
• Associates who live and work from Home in the state of California, Illinois, Montana, or South Dakota will be provided a bi-weekly payment for their internet expense.
• Humana will provide Home or Hybrid Home/Office associates with telephone equipment appropriate to meet the business requirements for their position/job.
• Work from a dedicated space lacking ongoing interruptions to protect member PHI / HIPAA information

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.

$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, volunteer time off, paid parental and caregiver leave), short-term and long-term disability, life insurance and many other opportunities.

Application Deadline: 04-02-2026

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.