Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health•Woonsocket, NV

3d•$106,605 - $284,280

About The Position

CVS Health Digital is seeking a hands-on Staff Software Development Engineer to build and operate backend, platform, and integration services at scale. The role designs and delivers highly available, secure, and compliant microservices for healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities. It requires strong experience with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, event-driven systems, cloud-native environments, and regulated domains. The engineer partners with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services integrated with healthcare ecosystems and third-party platforms.

Requirements

7 or more years of professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot.
5 or more years building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
5 or more years of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads; Docker experience is required, and Kubernetes is preferred.
3 or more years operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP.
3 or more years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
3 or more years of experience with security fundamentals, including OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management.
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; the posting specifies a high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience as an alternative.

Nice To Haves

Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.
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.

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.
Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls, including SAST, DAST, dependency and image scanning, and secrets management.
Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform using cloud-native patterns, including GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services.
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 for availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency of high-volume backend services.
Diagnose and resolve production issues, perform 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.