Staff Backend Engineer - Health Tech & Cloud Microservices

CVS Health; Beaverton (OR); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Retirement savings

Wellness programs

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend microservices powering healthcare data exchange in a cloud‑native environment. You will lead with product, architecture, security and DevOps teams to build secure, compliant services using Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and Kafka.

This role requires 7+ years in software development, 5+ years Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and strong API design.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Nodejs.
• + experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
• 3+ years of deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud‑native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, managed data services).
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred).
• Solid grasp of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management).

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient.
• 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

Cloud Native

Security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

GCP

Job description

CVS Health is looking for a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend microservices powering healthcare data exchange in a cloud‑native environment. You will lead with product, architecture, security and DevOps teams to build secure, compliant services using Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and Kafka.

This role requires 7+ years in software development, 5+ years Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, and strong API design.