Staff Backend Engineer, Health Cloud & Microservices

CVS Health; Town of King (WI); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead backend, platform, and integration services at scale. You’ll design microservices in Java/Spring Boot, build event-driven systems with Kafka, and ensure secure, compliant cloud-native operation in regulated healthcare environments.

You will partner with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services and drive production readiness, observability, and cost efficiency across high-volume

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• Strong backend Java experience with Spring Boot.
• Experience building RESTful microservices at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot.
• Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, consumer groups).
• Model and exchange data using JSON; ensure robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery.
• Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls (SAST, DAST, dependency & image scanning, secrets management).
• Apply 12‑factor app principles, infrastructure‑as‑code, and configuration management best practices.
• Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CCD/C-CDA, or similar regulated data exchange formats.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest.
• Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high‑volume backend services.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysis and drive long‑term reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
• Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussion, mentor junior engineers

Skills

Java/JEE

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Kafka

OpenAPI/Swagger

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OAuth2/OIDC

Security best practices

GCP

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GKE

Cloud Run

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead backend, platform, and integration services at scale. You’ll design microservices in Java/Spring Boot, build event-driven systems with Kafka, and ensure secure, compliant cloud-native operation in regulated healthcare environments.

You will partner with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services and drive production readiness, observability, and cost efficiency across high-volume