
Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise Platform Quality Engineering
Humana · New Jersey, United States
- Hybrid
- Full-time
- $177,000 / year
- New Jersey, United States
Job highlights
- Lead full stack development for quality engineering platform.
- Build reusable services and APIs for enterprise.
- Provide technical leadership and team mentorship.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- Shape the future of software delivery quality.
About the role
About Humana
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.
Required Qualifications
Use your skills to make an impact
- 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.
Key skills/competency
- Full Stack Development
- API Design
- UI/UX Implementation
- Agile/DevOps/CI/CD
- Technical Leadership
- Mentorship
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Enterprise Software
- Quality Engineering
Skills & topics
- Lead Software Engineer
- Enterprise Platform
- Quality Engineering
- Full Stack Development
- API Development
- UI/UX
- DevOps
- CI/CD
- Technical Leadership
- Mentorship
- Software Engineering
- Platform Engineering
- Agile
- Healthcare Technology
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Enterprise
- SonarQube
- Cloud-Native
- Microservices
How to get hired
- Tailor your resume: Highlight full stack, API design, and CI/CD experience.
- Showcase leadership: Emphasize mentorship and technical guidance experience.
- Quantify achievements: Use metrics to demonstrate impact in previous roles.
- Prepare for technical questions: Review full stack development, quality engineering, and DevOps concepts.
- Highlight collaboration: Demonstrate ability to work with diverse teams.
Technical preparation
Behavioral questions
Frequently asked questions
- What are the core responsibilities of a Lead Software Engineer at Humana?
- As a Lead Software Engineer at Humana, you will design, build, and enhance full stack applications and services for enterprise quality engineering. This includes developing reusable components, APIs, and shared services, contributing to platform reliability, and providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineers. You will collaborate with various teams to ensure alignment on standards and delivery priorities.
- What technologies and platforms are commonly used at Humana for this role?
- This role involves working with enterprise engineering tools and platforms such as Azure DevOps Services, GitHub Enterprise, LaunchDarkly, and SonarQube. Familiarity with cloud-native patterns, microservices, APIs, containers, and event-driven architectures is also beneficial. Experience with dashboards, reporting tools, and data visualization solutions is preferred.
- What is the expected experience level for the Lead Software Engineer position?
- Humana requires at least 4 years of professional experience in software engineering with a strong background in full stack development. This includes experience with web applications, APIs, backend services, front-end development, UI/UX implementation, and working within Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD environments.
- How does Humana support professional development for its Lead Software Engineers?
- Humana offers competitive benefits that support whole-person well-being. While specific professional development programs aren't detailed, the role involves technical leadership, mentorship, and collaboration with various teams, providing ample opportunities for growth and learning within a large healthcare organization.
- Is this Lead Software Engineer role remote or on-site?
- This Lead Software Engineer position is primarily a remote role. However, occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
- What is the typical career path for a Lead Software Engineer at Humana?
- As a Lead Software Engineer, you are already in a senior technical role. Career progression could involve moving into principal engineering roles, management positions (e.g., Engineering Manager), or specializing further in areas like architecture or specific platform domains within Humana.
- What kind of impact can a Lead Software Engineer make at Humana?