Staff Backend Engineer, Java/Spring Microservices, Cloud

CVS Health; Bristol (RI); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

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

Responsibilities include building secure services, integrating with EHR standards, and ensuring compliance and reliability in regulated domains.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of overall professional software development experience.
• 5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Nodejs.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
• 3+ years deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud-native patterns.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.

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

JSON modeling

CI/CD pipelines

Security fundamentals

Cloud-native environments

GCP

OAuth2/OIDC

Kubernetes

Docker

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

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

Responsibilities include building secure services, integrating with EHR standards, and ensuring compliance and reliability in regulated domains.