Staff Backend Engineer - Java Microservices on Cloud

CVS Health; Crystal Bay (NV); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement options

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend microservices for healthcare data exchange. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures in cloud-native environments, collaborating with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams.

You will ensure HIPAA compliance, build CI/CD pipelines, implement observability, and help evolve data standards such as HL7/FHIR.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall 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

Event-driven systems

Cloud-native environments

OAuth2/OIDC security

OpenAPI/Swagger

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

GKE/Cloud Run

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver scalable backend microservices for healthcare data exchange. You will work with Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures in cloud-native environments, collaborating with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams.

You will ensure HIPAA compliance, build CI/CD pipelines, implement observability, and help evolve data standards such as HL7/FHIR.