Senior Software Engineer - HealthTech (Java, Kafka, GCP)

CVS Health Corporation; Dover (DE); On-site; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with deep expertise in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and Kafka to lead design and development of scalable, secure cloud‑native solutions in a healthcare context. The ideal candidate will bring hands‑on experience with data migration, ETL pipelines, and data management, ideally within healthcare/EHR integration.

Familiarity with HL7/FHIR and cloud platforms such as GCP is highly preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years with 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 (unit tests, integration tests, SAST/DAST, artifact provenance, policy gates).
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Secret Manager, etc.
• Drive SecDevOps practices: threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, secrets management, container hardening.
• Implement observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerts, SLOs).
• Integrate microservices with EHR systems using HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and standard healthcare APIs.

Skills

Software engineering

Leadership

Architectural design

Security mindset

Mentoring

Java/JEE

RESTful APIs

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

OpenTelemetry

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Apache Kafka

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD tooling

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with deep expertise in Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful microservices, and Kafka to lead design and development of scalable, secure cloud‑native solutions in a healthcare context. The ideal candidate will bring hands‑on experience with data migration, ETL pipelines, and data management, ideally within healthcare/EHR integration.

Familiarity with HL7/FHIR and cloud platforms such as GCP is highly preferred.