Staff Software Development Engineer

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Staff engineer building Java, Kafka, and GCP healthcare microservices for CVS Health. Designing secure integrations, reliability, and compliant digital health platforms.

Responsibilities:

  • Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot
  • Expose secure, performant, and resilient RESTful APIs
  • Implement event-driven patterns with Apache Kafka, including producers, 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 testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery
  • 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 HIPAA, data governance, platform security, and encryption requirements
  • Own production readiness for availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency
  • Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
  • Implement structured logging, metrics, and tracing for monitoring and incident response
  • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions
  • Mentor junior engineers
  • Partner with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams

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 deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using 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, including Docker; Kubernetes preferred
  • Solid grasp of OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)
  • Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms preferred
  • Cloud certification preferred
  • Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services
  • Familiarity with Grafana and Splunk
  • Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus
  • Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills

Benefits:

  • CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program
  • Award target in the company’s equity award program
  • Medical coverage
  • Dental coverage
  • Vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • Retirement savings options
  • Wellness programs
  • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being