Staff Software Engineer — Cloud, Microservices & Health Data

Careerwebsite; Rhode Island; On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead a cross-functional team building scalable healthcare technology. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver cloud-native microservices on GCP, focused on secure data exchange and interoperability with EHR systems.

You will work with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and modern cloud tools, owning API strategy and DevOps practices, while guiding data migrations and healthcare data formats like FHIR/HL7.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• 7+ years of experience with Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, and RESTful services.
• 5+ years designing and implementing microservices architectures.
• 3+ years of experience with Apache Kafka or similar event-streaming technologies.
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• 2+ years of experience working with public cloud platforms, including GCP, AWS, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and develop high-performance microservices using Java, JEE, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• Lead development of event-driven services using Apache Kafka (producers, consumers, streaming patterns, schema evolution)
• Own API strategy for RESTful services, ensuring consistent JSON modeling, backward-compatible versioning, and strong API governance
• Mentor team members and contribute to engineering standards, design reviews, and coding best practices
• Design and implement ETL pipelines for structured/unstructured data using Python-based pipelines, Spring Batch, or cloud-native ETL frameworks
• Lead data migration efforts for legacy-to-cloud or system-to-system transitions (incremental loads, bulk loads, validation, reconciliation)
• Establish data quality, profiling, and governance practices
• Work with clinical data formats, mapping, transformations, and normalization (FHIR resources, HL7 v2 segments, CCD/C-CDA documents)
• Build and maintain CI/CD automation (unit tests, integration tests, SAST/DAST, artifact provenance, policy gates)
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Build, Cloud SQL, Pub/Sub, IAM, Secret Manager, etc
• Drive SecDevOps practices: threat modeling, secure coding, dependency scanning, secrets management, container hardening
• Implement observability frameworks (OpenTelemetry, tracing, dashboards, alerts, SLOs)
• Integrate microservices with EHR systems using HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and standard healthcare APIs
• Support workflows across patient data exchange, interoperability, and HIPAA-aligned data flows
• Collaborate with compliance and security teams to implement regulatory safeguards

Skills

Mentoring engineers

Cross-functional teamwork

Agile development

Architectural leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Cloud

Kafka

JEE

REST APIs

Docker

Kubernetes

GCP

Cloud Run

Cloud Build

OpenTelemetry

Job description

CVS Health Digital is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead a cross-functional team building scalable healthcare technology. You will shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver cloud-native microservices on GCP, focused on secure data exchange and interoperability with EHR systems.

You will work with Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, and modern cloud tools, owning API strategy and DevOps practices, while guiding data migrations and healthcare data formats like FHIR/HL7.