Senior Software Engineer – Full Stack
Company: Humana
Location: Chicago, IL 60290 (Remote)
Salary: $106,900 - $147,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-05-07
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The Senior Full Stack Engineer – Platform & Architecture is a hands-on senior engineer role with broad scope across the full stack (user experience, front-end, APIs/services, integrations, database, and hosting) for the Wisconsin Medicaid Market. The role emphasizes end-to-end ownership—from building intuitive, accessible user experiences to designing reliable back-end services—while driving platform consistency and mentoring engineers to deliver secure, scalable solutions.
This position blends day-to-day full stack engineering with technical leadership. It involves architecture-minded decision making, modernizing legacy systems, and reducing technical debt. Additionally, it establishes consistent patterns across UI, API, data, and integration layers for two independent health plan technology stacks. The role promotes modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure and security as code, automated testing, accessibility, and observability. It also expects responsible use of Humana-approved AI and code generation tools to accelerate delivery and improve quality.
The Senior Full Stack Engineer – Platform & Architecture is responsible for hands-on architecture, design, development, and modernization of applications and platforms that support the Wisconsin Medicaid Market. This role operates with a high degree of autonomy and trust, owning solutions end-to-end across the full stack rather than confining itself to a single application or technology area.
The Wisconsin Medicaid Market IT team functions as a highly empowered, end-to-end technology organization supporting two acquired health plans with independent core administration systems and technology stacks. As a result, this role works across the full spectrum of core platforms and supporting systems. It collaborates with peers, enterprise architecture, and platform partners to define technical direction, align to enterprise standards where appropriate, an...