Lead Software Engineer - NBA

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The Lead Full Stack Engineer owns the NBA platform's orchestration and state machine — the system that carries a decision from the moment it is made to the moment it is activated, delivered, and acknowledged across member engagement channels. Built in Node.js/Type Script on the Temporal workflow platform, the solution manages durable workflow execution, long-running member journeys, and reliable action delivery through Transactional Outbox and Kafka-based event patterns.

This role owns the critical path between decision generation, activation, delivery, and receipt processing, ensuring actions are executed correctly, consistently, and at enterprise scale. This is a hands‑on technical leadership role: you write code, lead a small team of engineers and contractors, and are accountable end‑to‑end for the durability, correctness, observability, and timeliness of action delivery across the member journey.

• Pod delivery —
• Workflow orchestration —
• Action delivery architecture —
• Activation integrations —
• Hands‑on development —
• Technical decisions —
• Distributed systems reliability —
• Observability and operations —
• Team leadership —
• Cross‑team coordination —

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant area
• 6+ years of full stack software engineering experience, with at least 1–2 years in a tech‑lead or senior‑lead capacity.
• Strong Node.js/Type Script backend experience building production services.
• Hands‑on experience with workflow orchestration platforms, with Temporal strongly preferred (or comparable technologies such as Cadence, Step Functions, or Airflow for durable workflows).
• Strong distributed systems fundamentals, including event‑driven architectures, asynchronous processing, retries, idempotency, and failure recovery.
• Experience designing and implementing Kafka producer and consumer patterns in production environments.
• Experience building reliable event delivery systems using Transactional Outbox, event‑driven integration patterns, or comparable messaging architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead a small pod through delivery and be accountable for technical outcomes.
• Experience operating cloud‑native systems on Azure or equivalent cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Clear communicator who can represent the pod's architecture, delivery status, operational risks, and tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.

• Production experience with Temporal at scale, including workflow versioning, long‑running workflow management, and operational lifecycle management.
• Deep experience implementing Transactional Outbox patterns, delivery acknowledgment workflows, dead‑letter queue management, receipt reconciliation, and exactly‑once processing semantics.
• Experience integrating Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) or comparable activation and engagement platforms.
• Experience with Kafka ecosystem tooling, event schema governance, and large‑scale event‑driven architectures.
• Familiarity with the wider NBA platform stack, including React/Type Script, Java services, and Decision Intelligence systems.
• Experience with Helm, Terraform, and Kubernetes‑based deployment patterns.
• Background in healthcare, insurance, or another regulated industry with PHI handling, auditability, and compliance requirements.

Work Style: Remote/Hybrid - Preferably Boston, MA.

Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.

Typical business hours are Monday-Friday, 8 hours/day, 5 days/week-- some flexibility might be possible, depending on business needs.

Very minimal travel might be required for training, meetings, and/or conferences

As part of our hiring process, we will be using on-demand technology provided by Hire Vue, a third‑party vendor. This technology provides our team of recruiters and hiring managers with an enhanced method for decision‑making through on‑demand candidate assessments.

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