Software Engineering Senior Manager - HIH - Evernorth

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 2,500,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Cigna Health and Life Insurance Company seeks a Software Engineering Senior Manager to lead backend teams delivering scalable Node.js/Typescript services. You will drive API design, microservices patterns, and cloud deployments across AWS, with emphasis on reliability and performance.

The role requires 13–16 years in backend development, strong API and database skills, and collaboration across product, security, and operations. Hybrid work from Hyderabad, India is available.

Qualifications

• 13 to 16 years of experience in backend software development.

Responsibilities

• Manage team of Developers to develop and maintain backend applications using Node.js and Typescript, with a focus on reliability and scalability.

Skills

Node.js

Typescript

REST APIs

GraphQL

API Design

Microservices

Distributed Systems

AWS

CI/CD

SQL Databases

NoSQL Databases

Caching

Async Programming

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

MySQL

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

MongoDB

Redis

Memcached

GraphQL

RESTful APIs

Job description

Software Engineering Senior Manager Position Summary

We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions.

If you think the open position you see is right for you.

Our people make all the difference in our success.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage team of Developers to develop and maintain backend applications using Node.js and Typescript, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
• Implement advanced programming concepts like asynchronous programming, decorators, and efficient coding practices.
• Assist in system integration tasks across cloud and on-premises platforms, ensuring smooth communication between databases and APIs.
• Support transaction management, failure handling, validation, and retries to ensure application robustness.
• Assist in managing cloud-based services, with a preference for experience in AWS.

Desired Qualifications

• 13 to 16 years of experience in backend software development.
• Development using AI and Java Fullstack.
• Strong expertise in Node.js and Typescript.
• Experience building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Strong understainding of API design patterns, microservices architecture and even driven designs
• Relational Database - experience using MySQL or Postgres
• NoSql Database - experience using DynamoDb, MongoDB or Cassandra
• Caching - experience using Redis, Memcached
• Understanding of CI/CD tools and practices
• Experience in system integrations between databases, APIs, and cloud/on-prem systems.
• Experience in architecting and designing distributed systems that are highly available and security focused.
• Knowledge of handling transaction management, failure recovery, and system retries.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, is preferred.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and optimize complex systems.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments.

Education and Training Required

• Degree in Computer Science, or a related field.

Location & Hours of Work

• Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Expected overlap with US hours as appropriate.
• Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India, with flexibility to work remotely as required.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives. Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we’re dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.