About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services is the pharmacy, care and benefits solutions division of The Cigna Group. Evernorth exists to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible by creating and connecting health services such as perks management, pharmacy, care solutions, insights, and intelligence.

Position Overview The Cloud Application Development Engineer will design, develop, deploy, and support scalable cloud-native applications and distributed services.

This role requires hands-on expertise in Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, AWS serverless and container platforms, event-streaming technologies, cloud databases, and AI-assisted development tools.

The engineer will collaborate with product, architecture, platform, DevOps, quality engineering, and security teams to deliver reliable solutions aligned with business and healthcare technology requirements.

Responsibilities

- Design, build, test, and maintain cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and Python.
- Develop secure, reusable, and well-documented REST APIs and microservices following enterprise engineering standards.
- Build and support serverless and event-driven workloads using AWS Lambda.
- Deploy and operate containerized applications on Amazon EKS, applying Kubernetes-based scaling, availability, and resiliency practices.
- Design efficient data-access patterns and integrations using Amazon DynamoDB.
- Develop and maintain real-time streaming and asynchronous processing solutions using Apache Kafka.
- Use GitHub Copilot and Cursor responsibly to accelerate coding, testing, troubleshooting, refactoring, and technical documentation.




- Review and validate AI-generated code to ensure accuracy, security, performance, and compliance with engineering standards.
- Contribute to solution design, technical estimation, code reviews, test automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Integrate applications with CI/CD pipelines and support automated build, testing, deployment, and release processes.
- Monitor application health and performance, troubleshoot production issues, and implement sustainable corrective actions.
- Apply secure coding, data protection, observability, and operational-readiness practices throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Partner with cross-functional and geographically distributed teams to translate functional requirements into high-quality technical solutions.
- Mentor junior engineers, share technical knowledge, and contribute to reusable engineering patterns and standards.

Qualifications

Education

- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Experience

- 5–8 years of professional experience in software engineering, including hands-on cloud application development.
- Demonstrated experience building and supporting enterprise-grade, distributed, or high-volume applications.

Required Skills

- Strong programming experience in Java and Spring Boot, including microservices development.




- Hands-on application development experience using Node.js and Python.
- Practical experience with AWS Lambda, Amazon EKS, and cloud-native application patterns.
- Experience designing data models and access patterns using Amazon DynamoDB.
- Experience implementing event-driven and distributed solutions with Apache Kafka.
- Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, automated testing, and CI/CD practices.
- Experience using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or comparable AI-assisted software development tools.
- Knowledge of application security, performance optimization, logging, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in an Agile product engineering environment and independently manage priorities.

Preferred Skills

- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
- Exposure to observability platforms such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, or Grafana.
- Knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases, caching, and distributed-system design principles.
- AWS certification or an equivalent cloud engineering certification.
- Experience working in healthcare, pharmacy, benefits, insurance, or another regulated industry.

Work Hours

- Work timings will be aligned with business and project requirements.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform, and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

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