Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health•Work At Home-Illinois, NV

1d•$106,605 - $284,280

About The Position

CVS Health Digital is hiring a hands-on Staff Software Development Engineer to build and operate backend, platform, and integration services at scale. In this technical lead role, the engineer designs and delivers highly available, secure, and compliant microservices that support healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities. The role emphasizes Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments, and experience in regulated domains. The engineer partners with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services that integrate with healthcare ecosystems and third-party platforms.

Requirements

7+ years of overall professional software development experience.
5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and Node.js.
Experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
3+ years deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform using cloud-native patterns such as GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services.
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 using Docker; Kubernetes preferred.
Solid understanding of security fundamentals, including OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, defined as a high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms.
Cloud certification, such as GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.
Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services.
Familiarity with observability, monitoring, and alerting systems such as Grafana and Splunk.
Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) certification.
Experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP.
Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing secure, performant, and resilient RESTful APIs.
Implement event-driven patterns with Apache Kafka, including producers and consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, and consumer groups.
Model and exchange JSON data with robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with unit and integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery.
Work with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency and image scanning, and secrets management.
Apply 12-factor app principles, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management best practices.
Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and CCD/C-CDA.
Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest.
Own production readiness, including availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high-volume backend services.
Diagnose and resolve production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Implement structured logging, metrics, and tracing to support proactive monitoring and incident response.
Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions, and mentor junior engineers.