Staff Backend Engineer - Healthcare Microservices & GCP

CVS Health; Muncie (IN); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead backend services at scale. You will design, build, and operate microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs, ensuring security and compliance within healthcare data exchanges.

In this role you will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services, implement observability, and drive production readiness across cloud-native environments, particularly on Google Cloud

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years backend development with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Node.js.
• Experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
• 3+ years 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).
• 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 formats.
• Ensure HIPAA compliance, 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 discussions, mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Java/JEE

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Kafka

Cloud Native

Security fundamentals

OpenAPI/Swagger

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Cloud Run

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead backend services at scale. You will design, build, and operate microservices using Java, Spring Boot, and RESTful APIs, ensuring security and compliance within healthcare data exchanges.

In this role you will collaborate with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services, implement observability, and drive production readiness across cloud-native environments, particularly on Google Cloud