Job Description

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. We're actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cigna's customers all over the world.


We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to work on our middleware software development 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

• 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: Understand and follow 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 (4 years) within software development building scalable, modern APIs and microservices for highly available web and mobile applications.
• Technical Acumen: Good 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 Python / NodeJS / JVM (Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin) 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 and Test-driven development.
• Optional: 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.
• Optional: Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo CI.
• Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery, fail-early & fail-fast, continued improvements.
• Good communication skills, critical thinking and problem solving ability.
• Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

Desirable

• Experience of using Jira

About The Cigna Group

Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.