Staff Backend Engineer — Java/Spring Microservices (GCP)

CVS Health; Clayton (NC); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and operate backend microservices at scale, focusing on healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities. You will lead with Java/Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes in a cloud-native, regulated environment, partnering with Product, Security, and DevOps to deliver reliable services.

Role requires HIPAA-aware rigor, strong security practices, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient systems

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

REST APIs

Event-driven patterns

JSON data modeling

CI/CD pipelines

Security fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kafka

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and operate backend microservices at scale, focusing on healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities. You will lead with Java/Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes in a cloud-native, regulated environment, partnering with Product, Security, and DevOps to deliver reliable services.

Role requires HIPAA-aware rigor, strong security practices, and a track record of delivering scalable, resilient systems