Senior Backend Engineer: AI-Driven Microservices on Cloud

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Maine; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to join a cloud-native team on Google Cloud Platform. You will design, develop, and maintain microservices and distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on scalability, observability, and AI-enabled capabilities.

The role requires hands-on engineering, collaboration with product managers and architects, and a commitment to responsible AI practices. 40 hours/week, full-time, with a competitive CVS Health compensation package.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering with full lifecycle experience.
• 3+ years building cloud-native apps (GCP/AWS/Azure).
• Strong backend/API skills in Java, Python, Kotlin, or Go.
• 2+ years designing microservices with API and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with AI development tools and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with search technologies (Elasticsearch/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene).
• CI/CD and DevOps practice experience; containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Observability/monitoring experience (e.g., Splunk).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable microservices architectures and APIs.
• Build backend services and distributed systems focused on scalability and performance.
• Collaborate with architects to align with cloud-native design strategies.
• Develop data pipelines for real-time and batch processing.
• Incorporate AI-driven capabilities such as search and recommendations.
• Enhance search systems using Elastic/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices; ensure production reliability.
• Monitor, log, and maintain system observability and health.

Skills

Java

Python

Kotlin

Go

Microservices

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GCP

AWS

Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

CircleCI

Harness

Elastic/OpenSearch/Solr/Lucene

Splunk

GitHub

Claude

OpenCode

Codex

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to join a cloud-native team on Google Cloud Platform. You will design, develop, and maintain microservices and distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on scalability, observability, and AI-enabled capabilities.

The role requires hands-on engineering, collaboration with product managers and architects, and a commitment to responsible AI practices. 40 hours/week, full-time, with a competitive CVS Health compensation package.