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About the Role
CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer with extensive experience in backend, platform, and integration services. This role involves designing and delivering highly available, secure, and compliant microservices for healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities, utilizing technologies like Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event-driven systems in cloud-native environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient
- Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka
- Model and exchange data using JSON, ensuring validation, versioning, and backward compatibility
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery
- Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls
- Apply 12-factor app principles, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management best practices
- Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards
- Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements
- Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high-volume backend services
- Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysis and drive long-term reliability improvements
- Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response
- Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions, mentor junior engineers
Requirements
- 7+ years of overall professional software development experience
- 5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Nodejs
- Experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems
- 3+ years of deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud-native patterns
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
- Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
- Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred)
- Solid grasp of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management)
- Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms
- Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)
- Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services
- Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity (Grafana, Splunk)
- Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus
- Experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP
- Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills
Skills
- Java
- Spring Boot
- RESTful APIs
- Event-driven systems
- Cloud-native environments
- Apache Kafka
- JSON
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- HL7 v2
- FHIR
- SMART on FHIR
- CCD/C-CDA
- HIPAA
- OAuth2/OIDC
- TLS
- Grafana
- Splunk
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Staff Engineer
- 7+ years of overall professional software development experience
- 5+ years developing backend applications
- 3+ years of deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
Salary/Compensations
- $106,605.00 - $284,280.00
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Paid time off
- Retirement savings options
- Wellness programs
- CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program
- Equity award program
About the Company
- CVS Health is building a world of health around every individual, shaping a more connected, convenient, and compassionate health experience.
- Our purpose is bringing our heart to every moment of your health, guiding our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care.
- We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.
- Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
Equal Opportunity
- CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services.
- We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
- We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
- Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.