Staff Backend Engineer — Spring Boot & Microservices

CVS Health; Jackson (MS); Presencial; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver highly available backend microservices at scale. You will work with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures, while partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams in cloud-native environments.

Emphasis on HIPAA compliance and healthcare data standards. The role requires extensive backend experience, distributed systems knowledge, and strong debugging skills, with a

Formación

• 7+ years of professional software development experience.
• ~5+ years developing backend applications 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.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker).
• Familiarity with healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms.
• Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services.
• Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity (Grafana, Splunk).
• Experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP.
• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient.
• Model and exchange data using JSON; 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).
• 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 data exchange formats.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements.
• Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high-volume backend services.
• 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.

Descripción del empleo

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design and deliver highly available backend microservices at scale. You will work with Java/JEE, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event-driven architectures, while partnering with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams in cloud-native environments.

Emphasis on HIPAA compliance and healthcare data standards. The role requires extensive backend experience, distributed systems knowledge, and strong debugging skills, with a