Software Engineering Advisor - Evernorth Digital Consumer Engineering at Cigna in Plano, Texas

Job Description:

Must be a current contractor with Cigna Healthcare, Evernorth Health Services, or one of their subsidiaries.

Seeking a software engineer to join the Evernorth Digital Consumer Engineering team. This team's focus is delivering high-quality web and mobile applications adhering to enterprise development best practices. This is a highly collaborative team that owns and supports some of the most critical features in Member applications (mobile & web). Craftsmanship, pride in ownership and passion for excellence are core expectations.

General Summary:

Full stack developer who has experience developing client facing web/mobile applications using the technologies listed above. They are expected to work closely with developers, technical project managers, principal engineers and business stakeholders to ensure that application solutions meet business/customer requirements.

Essential Functions:

• Candidates will need to have experience with medium-to-large-scale web development.


• Ability to develop within "full" technology stack


• Be part of a fast moving team, working with the latest tools and open source technologies


• Design and develop our next generation of RESTful APIs and Event driven services in a distributed environment


• Use advanced, distributed technologies to process, store, and quickly retrieve huge volumes of data


• Work on a development team using agile methodologies

• 7-10 years of work experience in application engineering


• Experience with scripting languages such as JavaScript or Typescript.


• Experience with React (preferred), React Native (preferred), Angular 2+.


• Web application development experience with compiled languages such as Java (preferred), Groovy, C#, or Go


• Solid understanding of OOP, Design Patterns, Data Structures and Web Standards


• Solid understanding of JavaScript, HTML and CSS


• Strong understanding of parallel processing, concurrency and asynchronous concepts


• Strong experience with Event Driven Architecture (preferred)


• Experience with developing RESTful web services


• Experience with Linux


• Strong experience with enterprise level N-tier web applications


• Experience with Frameworks/Apps such as Express, Grails, Spring MVC


• Experience in writing native SQL queries


• Relational Database - experience using Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB, Postgres, or SQLServer


• NoSql Database - DynamoDb, MongoDB, Cassandra


• Caching - Redis, Memcached


• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Openshift, Google App Engine, or Heroku)


• Experience with Application Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Cloudwatch, Dynatrace etc)


• Strong experience with enterprise security Including IAM Roles & Policies, Auth0/Okta, Encryption, API Gateways, Firewalls, Private Cloud)


• Strong experience with Continuous Integration/Deployments (Jenkins/Terraform/Git Lab Runners)


• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in architecting and designing distributed systems that are highly available and security focused


• Experience with designing event-based systems


• Experience in SSO (SAML, OPENID)


• Understanding Queue/Messaging services- JMS, Amazon SQS, MS MQ, etc.


• Experience with single-page applications

If you will be working at home occasionally or permanently, the internet connection must be obtained through a cable broadband or fiber optic internet service provider with speeds of at least 10Mbps download/5Mbps upload.

About The Cigna Group

Doing something meaningful starts with a simple decision, a commitment to changing lives. At The Cigna Group, we're dedicated to improving the health and vitality of those we serve. Through our divisions Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services, we are committed to enhancing the lives of our clients, customers and patients. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.

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.

The Cigna Group has a tobacco-free policy and reserves the right not to hire tobacco/nicotine users in states where that is legally permissible. Candidates in such states who use tobacco/nicotine will not be considered for employment unless they enter a qualifying smoking cessation program prior to the start of their employment. These states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Vermont, and Washington State.