Application Development Associate Advisor
Position Summary:
We value our talented employees, and whenever possible strive to help one of our associates grow professionally before recruiting new talent to our open positions. If you think the open position you see is right for you, we encourage you to apply!
Our people make all the difference in our success.
As a Backend Engineer, you will be joining a team transforming healthcare and improving the lives and vitality of the millions of members we serve. We leverage cutting edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to develop solutions for automated document processing and customer service chat bots.
We are looking for an experienced Backend / API Engineer to join our team. You will play a key role in supporting backend application development, system integration, and implementing AI capabilities in our products. This role requires a solid foundation in Node.js, system integrations, and cloud technologies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain backend applications using Node.js and Typescript, with a focus on reliability and scalability.
- Implement advanced programming concepts like asynchronous programming, decorators, and efficient coding practices.
- Assist in system integration tasks across cloud and on-premises platforms, ensuring smooth communication between databases and APIs.
- Support transaction management, failure handling, validation, and retries to ensure application robustness.
- Assist in managing cloud-based services, with a preference for experience in AWS.
Desired Qualifications:
- 8 to 11 years of experience in backend software development
- Strong expertise in Node.js, Typescript, Python & Golang
- Experience building RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs
- Strong understainding of API design patterns, microservices architecture and even driven designs.
- Relational Database - experience using MySQL or Postgres
- NoSql Database - experience using DynamoDb, MongoDB or Cassandra
- Caching - experience using Redis, Memcached
- Understanding of CI/CD tools and practices
Experience in system integrations between databases, APIs, and cloud/on-prem systems. - Experience in architecting and designing distributed systems that are highly available and security focused.
- Knowledge of handling transaction management, failure recovery, and system retries.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, particularly AWS, is preferred.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and optimize complex systems.
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments.
About Evernorth Health Services
Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.
