Lead Product Engineer

Humana • Work at Home - Kentucky, KY

3d • $129,300 - $177,800 • Remote

About The Position

Humana’s Digital Health Platform (DHP) Product Engineering builds shared foundations used by Humana’s consumer digital experiences and platform teams, including a micro-frontend catalog, accessibility tooling, and API foundations. The Lead Product Engineer sets technical direction, continues to ship production code, and helps establish an emerging skills-driven practice in which AI coding agents use reusable instructions for recurring tasks. The role has no direct reports and leads through hands-on contribution, technical ownership, and influence across product teams.

The Lead owns the technical approach and product outcomes for the team’s products, as well as the shared AI coding skills and tooling the team relies on. This includes shaping products around user needs, defining how impact is measured, setting engineering standards, coaching engineers, and helping other platform teams adopt the practice. The team’s delivery remains the priority.

This is a remote position with occasional travel to Humana offices for training or meetings. Home or hybrid home/office employees must have internet service with at least 25 Mbps download and 10 Mbps upload and work from a dedicated space that protects member PHI/HIPAA information. The position is scheduled for 40 hours per week.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• At least 8 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of full-stack web development.
• At least 2 years of experience with each of React, Node.js, and GraphQL.
• At least 2 years leading technical direction, including establishing a practice, standard, or tool adopted by teams beyond one’s own.
• At least 2 years owning product direction, such as shaping a roadmap and tying work to measured results for users.
• At least 1 year of hands-on experience building skills, prompts, or tooling around AI coding tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Cursor.
• Ability to make and explain sound technical decisions with incomplete information.
• Ability to influence engineers and teams outside one’s reporting line through standards, examples, and coaching.
• Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to give and receive constructive feedback in code reviews and design discussions.
• Ability to bring structure to ambiguous problems and developing processes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience establishing test-driven development with Vitest, Jest, or Playwright as a team practice.
• Experience integrating accessibility into a team’s development workflow to WCAG 2.2.
• Experience architecting Azure microservices with Docker or Kubernetes and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with micro-frontend architecture using Module Federation, including shared modules and cross-app dependencies.
• Experience building React applications with TanStack Query, TanStack Router, TanStack Start, or Next.js.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and determine the technical approach for the team’s products, make sound decisions on complex issues with incomplete information, and document architectural decisions.
• Ship production code most weeks across accessible user interfaces, GraphQL APIs, and Node.js microservices.
• Work with users and stakeholders to understand problems, partner with the Product Owner on priorities, and run discovery, spikes, and prototypes before committing to work.
• Define how the team measures product impact for Humana members and patients and for platform teams, and use results to inform roadmap decisions.
• Set standards for test-driven development, accessibility, performance, security, and review of AI-generated code.
• Develop engineers’ judgment through pairing, design reviews, and code reviews.
• Own the shared AI coding skills and tooling used by the team, including their standards, review, and roadmap.
• Help other platform product teams adopt the practice by onboarding and coaching their engineers as they extend it.
• Participate in interviewing and hiring engineers and help new hires become productive in the practice.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan.
• Paid time off, company holidays, and personal holidays.
• Paid parental and caregiver leave.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Life insurance.
• Other opportunities supporting whole-person well-being.
• Eligibility for a bonus incentive plan based on company and/or individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior