Senior Backend Engineer – AI‑Driven Personalization & Search

Stryker Corporation; Northern (KY); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our team building cloud-native microservices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems to enable real-time and batch processing.

The role emphasizes AI-driven capabilities, robust data pipelines, observability, and a strong DevOps culture. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software engineering experience including design, development, testing, and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to scalable microservices architectures, APIs, and event-driven systems.
• Develop backend services with focus on scalability, resiliency, and performance.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers on cloud-native strategies.
• Build and optimize data pipelines for real-time and batch processing.
• Enable AI-driven features such as search, recommendations and decision support.
• Support production systems with monitoring, logging, and observability best practices.
• Participate in design reviews and code reviews following engineering standards.
• Collaborate with product managers and cross-functional teams on modular solutions.

Skills

Backend development

Cloud-native

Java/Python/Kotlin/Go

Microservices

AI tools

Search technologies

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Observability (Splunk)

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

GCP

OpenSearch

ElasticSearch

Solr

Lucene

GitHub

Jenkins

CircleCI

Harness

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a backend-focused Senior Software Engineer to join our team building cloud-native microservices on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services and distributed systems to enable real-time and batch processing.

The role emphasizes AI-driven capabilities, robust data pipelines, observability, and a strong DevOps culture. You will collaborate with architects, product managers, and cross-functional teams to deliver reliable