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Join a High Performing Engineering Team Driving the Future of Healthcare Technology
At Humana, a Fortune 100 healthcare technology leader, we’re transforming how millions of people experience care. As a Software Engineer 2, you’ll play a key role in building modern, scalable solutions that directly improve health outcomes and consumer experiences. You’ll join a highly collaborative, agile engineering organization where your ideas matter, your code ships fast, and your work has impact.

What You’ll Do

As a Senior Software Engineer 2, you will:

• Design, build, and deliver high‑quality software solutions that power healthcare and wellness experiences.
• Build and maintain mission‑critical APIs that power Humana’s Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) ecosystem—ensuring our members, partners, and internal systems can access accurate, real‑time data at scale.

Develop and optimize high‑performance backend services, with a focus on reliability, security, and maintainability.

• Work hands‑on across the full development lifecycle—coding, testing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying production‑ready systems.
• Raise the bar on engineering quality, helping develop robust testing strategies, tooling, automation, and standards.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues, identifying root causes and implementing long‑term fixes.
• Collaborate within a cross‑functional agile team, partnering with product, architecture, and QA to create solutions aligned with business and consumer needs.
• Apply your engineering expertise to make independent decisions and solve ambiguous problems with minimal guidance.

• Seek opportunities to modernize legacy components, improve system resilience and performance, and enhance backend observability and developer experience.

• Contribute to an engineering culture that values innovation, continuous learning, and relentless improvement of the consumer journey.

Use your skills to make an impact
 

Required Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands‑on experience in software development, systems analysis, or application programming
• Strong coding skills and familiarity with modern development practices (CI/CD, cloud platforms, automated testing, agile methodologies)
• A passion for building elegant, reliable, user‑centric software
• A growth mindset and a desire to contribute to a mission‑driven organization focused on improving healthcare

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Additional Information

Why Humana?

At Humana, we know your well-being is important to you, and it's important to us too. That's why we're committed to making resources available to you that will enable you to become happier, healthier, and more productive in all areas of your life. Just to name a few:

• Work-Life Balance
• Generous PTO package
• Health benefits effective day 1
• Annual Incentive Plan
• 401K - Excellent company match
• Well-being program
• Paid Volunteer Time Off

If you share our passion for helping people, we likely have the right place for you at Humana.

Work-At-Home Requirements

To ensure Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees’ ability to work effectively, the self-provided internet service of Home or Hybrid Home/Office employees 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.
Employees 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 employees 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.

SSN Alert Statement

Humana values personal identity protection. Please be aware that applicants may be asked to provide their Social Security Number, if it is not already on file. When required, an email will be sent from Humana@myworkday.com with instructions on how to add the information into your official application on Humana's secure website.

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

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