Lead Full-Stack Engineer - Backend Focus
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HumanaHealthcare software
Source API remote eligibility restrictions: United StatesFull-TimeLead
Salary$155,200 - $213,400 per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 8+ years of software engineering experience
- Required Skills
- GraphQLPythonOAuthTypeScriptNext.jsReactRESTful APIsHIPAA
Requirements
- B.S. or M.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep expertise in backend and platform engineering.
- Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or Python for API and service development.
- Proven track record building scalable, production-grade REST or GraphQL APIs.
- Solid understanding of authentication, including OAuth2 and OIDC, API security patterns, and authorization model design.
- Working knowledge of HIPAA requirements, particularly secure transmission, storage, and access control for PHI.
- Experience with Next.js and React sufficient for full-stack feature contribution.
- Demonstrated ownership of complex backend systems end-to-end, from architecture through production operation.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools and LLM coding harnesses such as Claude Code, Pi Agent, Cursor, or Codex.
- Preferred: experience in healthcare, financial services, or another highly regulated industry.
- Preferred: exposure to event-driven architecture, microservices, or API gateway patterns at scale.
- Preferred: familiarity with AI/LLM integration patterns, including streaming APIs and tool-use orchestration.
- Preferred: experience in a greenfield or team-founding engineering environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and lead development of core backend services, REST and GraphQL APIs, and service-to-service integrations across the AI product stack.
- Establish patterns for authentication, authorization, rate limiting, PHI access control, and audit logging, embedding HIPAA compliance in platform design.
- Define and implement reusable AI integration patterns for product APIs, including LLM routing, streaming responses, tool orchestration, and model output handling.
- Build logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure to support platform operation and debugging at scale.
- Contribute to end-to-end product feature development using TypeScript and Next.js, from server-side APIs to rendered UI.
- Drive architecture reviews and define backend engineering standards for the engineering team.
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