Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health Digital is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to join a high-energy team to 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 (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, consumer groups)
• 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 (SAST, DAST, dependency & image scanning, secrets management)
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud-native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, 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, CCD/C-CDA, or similar regulated data exchange formats
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest
• 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 (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)
• 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 professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot
• 5+ years building RESTful microservices and distributed systems, along with a strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
• 5+ year of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred)
• 3+ years operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
• 3+ years of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management)

Benefits:

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources

Pay Range:

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00