Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Microservices & Search

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

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to build scalable microservices on a cloud-native platform hosted on GCP. You will design, develop, and maintain distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines, enabling real-time processing and AI-driven capabilities.

The role requires strong analytical thinking, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable software in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience across design, development, testing, and deployment.
• 3+ years building cloud-native applications on GCP, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong backend programming in Java, Python, Kotlin, or Go.
• 2+ years designing microservices with API design and event-driven patterns.
• Experience with AI development tools and distributed systems; search technologies like Elastic/OpenSearch/Solr.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices, containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Observability and monitoring using tools such as Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to scalable microservices architectures, including APIs, domain-driven services, and event-driven systems.
• Develop and maintain backend services with focus on scalability, resiliency and performance.
• Collaborate with architects to implement cloud-native strategies and CI/CD practices.
• Build data pipelines for real-time and batch processing and support AI-enabled features.

Skills

Java

Python

Kotlin

Go

API design

Microservices

Distributed systems

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Splunk

OpenSearch

Solr

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to build scalable microservices on a cloud-native platform hosted on GCP. You will design, develop, and maintain distributed systems, APIs, and data pipelines, enabling real-time processing and AI-driven capabilities.

The role requires strong analytical thinking, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a track record of delivering reliable, scalable software in a fast-paced environment.