Senior Java Software Engineer – Microservices, Kafka, GCP

CVS Health; Olympia (WA); On-site; USD 83,430 - 222,480; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native solutions using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and Kafka. The role emphasizes data migration, ETL pipelines, SecDevOps, and healthcare data standards in a HIPAA-conscious environment.

The ideal candidate will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with compliance to ensure secure, interoperable health data exchange.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years with developing applications within Java/JEE, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, RESTful microservices
• 3+ years of Apache Kafka (event streaming, partitions, consumer groups, schema registry)
• 3+ years CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, automated testing
• 3+ years Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud orchestration
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Cloud (GCP, AWS, Azure)

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop high-performance microservices using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• Lead development of event-driven services using Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, streaming patterns, schema evolution)
• Own API strategy for RESTful services, ensuring consistent JSON modeling, backward-compatible versioning, and strong API governance
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and coding best practices
• Design and implement ETL pipelines for structured/unstructured data using Python-based pipelines, Spring Batch, or cloud-native ETL frameworks
• Lead data migration efforts for legacy-to-cloud or system-to-system transitions (incremental loads, bulk loads, validation, reconciliation)
• Establish data quality, profiling, and governance practices
• Work with clinical data formats, mapping, transformations, and normalization (FHIR resources, HL7 v2 segments, CCD/C-CDA documents)
• Build and maintain CI/CD automation on GCP using GKE/Cloud Run/Cloud Build/Cloud SQL/ Pub/Sub/ IAM/ Secret Manager

Skills

Java/JEE

Spring Boot

RESTful microservices

Apache Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Docker & Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

AWS

Azure

Spring Batch

Job description

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to lead design and development of scalable, cloud-native solutions using Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and Kafka. The role emphasizes data migration, ETL pipelines, SecDevOps, and healthcare data standards in a HIPAA-conscious environment.

The ideal candidate will mentor engineers, drive architectural decisions, and partner with compliance to ensure secure, interoperable health data exchange.