Senior Backend Architect: Healthcare Microservices (Java/Spring)

CVS Health; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate high‑availability backend services at scale. You will lead RESTful microservices, implement event‑driven patterns with Kafka, and ensure secure data exchange in regulated healthcare environments.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services, use 12‑factor principles, and drive security‑conscious delivery.

Qualifications

• 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 of deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud‑native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, managed data services).
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka or similar event‑streaming platforms.

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).
• 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 discussion, mentor junior engineers

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Kafka

Cloud Native / GCP

Security Fundamentals

Observability / Monitoring

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab)

GCP services (BigQuery, Spanner)

Job description

CVS Health Digital is hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate high‑availability backend services at scale. You will lead RESTful microservices, implement event‑driven patterns with Kafka, and ensure secure data exchange in regulated healthcare environments.

You will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services, use 12‑factor principles, and drive security‑conscious delivery.