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. 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 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 (6 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 Python / NodeJS / JVM (Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin) for modern web applications. 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, Bamboo 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: Bachelor’s or Master’s 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 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.