Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health Digital is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to join a high-energy team and make a difference in customers' lives through digital innovation. In this role, you will design and deliver highly available, secure, and compliant microservices that power healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities.

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; ensure robust 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
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud-native patterns
• 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 to support proactive monitoring and incident response
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions; mentor junior engineers

Requirements:

• 7+ years of professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot
• 5+ years building RESTful microservices and distributed systems
• 5+ years of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads
• 3+ years operating production services in cloud environments
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
• 3+ years of security fundamentals

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills
• Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms
• Cloud certification preferred
• Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services
• Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus