Remote, Work from home, United States

This role will be working hand-in-hand with a veteran team of agile developers that is creating exciting new features for Cigna customers. The role will need to be a combination of technical leader and individual contributor who has production experience delivering front end and back end software at scale. A successful candidate in this role should:

• Collaborate with other senior application specialist in the organization to create an atmosphere of group contribution in addition to individual execution that makes the organization more efficient and knowledgeable.

• Communicate with internal and external business partners to qualify technical requirements and communicate those finding back to the development team at large.

• Know the process of software development well enough to mentor and guide others when necessary.

• Re-use existing software development practices where possible for productivity but also introduce new trending industry practices and tools where appropriate.

• Design robust solutions to hard problems that also take into account scale, security, reliability, and cost.

• Contribute new software or modify existing software to meet projects and program goals.

• Lead small teams of other developers on focused technical projects when necessary

• Deliver needed project functionality for specific deliverables but deliver in such a way that the value is useful to the organization in the long term. 

• Benchmark systems, analyze bottlenecks and propose solutions to eliminate them.

• Be able to identify and resolve conflicts or ambiguities

Skills

An ideal developer will have experience with components at each layer of modern web applications. A modern full-stack web developer should have experience with many of the following languages, technologies, platforms, and frameworks. It is rare to find developers with the full following list but our internal developers speak most of these technologies everyday and we are looking for like minded developers:

• Some familiarity with JavaScript (TypeScript a plus)

• Some familiarity with NodeJS

• Ideal candidate has some production experience providing back-end solutions leveraging some of these: Spark, Kafka, Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, MongoDB

• Experience architecting and deploying highly scalable distributed systems.

• RESTful API's

• Some experience with AWS managed cloud solutions leveraging EKS and Lambdas.

• Ideal candidate has extensively worked with public RESTful interfaces and can describe the tenets of REST, compare REST to SOAP, and describe REST best practices

• Ideal candidate understands the tenets of protecting client data in motion and at rest as well as different techniques for authenticating and authorizing clients / consumers of service data.

• Experience across the full software lifecycle; have a DevOps mindset.

• Ideal candidate has performed primary product development with GIT based source control solutions (Github, Gitlab, etc).

• Ideal candidate should understand concepts such as rebasing, squashing, cherry picking, and tagging.

• NoSQL / SQL.

• Ideal candidate will have worked with unix based SQL, NoSQL databases (MongoDB, PostgresSQL, Oracle, etc).

• Test Automation Tools

• Ideal candidate has worked with Functional and Unit test based frameworks to develop automated tests. 

• Familiarity with Splunk and Grafana would be a plus.

Other helpful skills / experience:

• Continuous Integration (CI) / Continuous Deployments (CD)

• Ideal candidate has worked on projects with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, Gitlab-CI, etc)

• Container Technologies and Container Orchestration platforms

• Ideal candidate has worked on projects with container based solutions (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS, etc)

• Scrum experience is desirable

• Functional Programming

This role is WAH/Flex which allows most work to be performed at home. Employees must be fully vaccinated if they choose to come onsite. 

This position is not eligible to be performed in Colorado.

About Evernorth

Evernorth, Cigna Corporation’s health services segment, exists to elevate health for all. We're building on our legacy and redefining health care as we know it. Unbiased in how we think, we create without limitation. We partner without constraints, deliver value differently and act in the interest of humanity. Solving across silos, closing gaps in care, and empowering clients, customers, and people everywhere to move onward and upward. When you work with us, you’ll be empowered to solve the problems others don’t, won’t or can’t. Join us. What difference will you make?

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, age, disability, sex, childbirth (including pregnancy) or related medical conditions including but not limited to lactation, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, religion, national origin, ancestry, marital or familial status, genetic information, status with regard to public assistance, citizenship status or any other characteristic protected by applicable equal employment opportunity laws.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing the online application process, please email: SeeYourself@cigna.com for support. Do not email SeeYourself@cigna.com for an update on your application or to provide your resume as you will not receive a response