API Software Engineer

Overview

Cigna International Health is initiating a project to modernise its portal and self-service application to bolster the expansion of our health businesses across the globe. Were actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cignas customers all over the world.

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to drive our middleware software development efforts in creating high-quality scalable APIs and microservices. The ideal candidate will engineer technical solutions produce clean code and ensure successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership:
  • Provide direction and be responsible for the output of API stack discipline within the application development.
  • Implement software engineering strategy ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
  • Own middleware stack for the solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner.
  • Contribute to the definition of applications development policies standards and procedures.
• Mentoring:
  • Lead and mentor junior software development team members fostering a culture of innovation automation collaboration and excellence.
  • Take active part in career development and performance of junior software development team members.
• Project Delivery:
  • Execute software projects ensuring they are delivered on time within budget and meet quality standards.
  • Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
  • Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles and development processes to ensure scalable secure and efficient solutions collaborating with other senior leads.
• Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes tools and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.

Requirements

• Experience: Proven experience (3 years) in a senior role within software development building scalable modern APIs and microservices for highly available web and mobile applications.

• Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies source code management strategies design patterns automation and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability flexibility stability ease of maintenance and security.
• Technologies covered: Strong experience in implementing APIs using NodeJS / Typescript for modern web applications.
• Experience with integrating SQL/NoSQL databases external HTTP based systems for building the business logic.
• Experience with using ReSTful standards building API documentations CORS API security such as JWTs OAuth 2.0 etc.
• Experience in using unit testing frameworks various deployment strategies such as blue-green/canary for hosting the applications.
• Experience in building Infrastructure as Code using tools like Docker/Podman Kubernetes Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Experience in buildings APIs on AWS using Lambdas API Gateways IAM KMS S3 CloudFront. Experience in ECS/EKS Docker ALB/NLB is a plus.
• Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI.
• Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery fail-early & fail-fast continued improvements.
• Leadership Skills: Good leadership mentoring and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
• Education: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Software Engineering or a related field.
• Optional: Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules regulatory interfaces multi-currency multi-language etc is an advantage.
• Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions specifically microservice architecture at the code level in collaboration with other team members.

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira

About The Cigna Group