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.

Work Hours :
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.

If you are selected to move forward from your application prescreen, you will receive correspondence inviting you to participate in an on-demand assessment with pre-determined questions. You should anticipate the assessment to take approximately 10-15 minutes.

Your on-demand assessment will be reviewed, and you will subsequently be informed if you will be moving forward to next round of interviews.

Should you be extended a formal employment offer you will…