INTRODUCTION TO EVERNORTH:

Evernorth Health Services India, established in Hyderabad in 2024, is an innovation hub for Evernorth Health Services, the pharmacy, care and benefits division of The Cigna Group. The innovation hub will support innovation-focused areas, such as generative AI, product development, process improvement, analytics, and software engineering across The Cigna Group and its businesses. Evernorth Health Services India builds on The Cigna Group's existing presence in India.

About Evernorth Health Services:

Evernorth Health Services (Evernorth) is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group - a Fortune 16 global health company with 75,000 employees, 186 million customers in more than 30 countries and jurisdictions around the world. Evernorth exists to make the prediction, prevention, and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. We do this by creating and connecting premier health services offerings, such as benefits management, pharmacy, care solutions, insights and intelligence.

About Cigna:

The Cigna Group is a global health company committed to improving the health and vitality of individuals and communities around the world and includes products and services marketed under its Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Health Services subsidiaries. Cigna Healthcare is the health benefits provider of The Cigna Group, serving customers and clients through its U.S. Employer, U.S. Government, and International Health business. Evernorth Health Services is the pharmacy, care and benefits solution division of The Cigna Group.

Cigna, a leading Health Services company, is looking for an exceptional Back end and API engineer in our Provider Engineering organization. This position is responsible for the delivery of a business need starting from understanding the requirements to deploying the software into production. This role requires you to be fluent in some of the critical technologies with proficiency in others, with a very strong analytical aptitude and have a hunger to learn on the job, understand data and add value to the business. Critical attributes of being a Back End Engineer, among others, is ownership, eagerness to learn & an open mindset. In addition to delivery, the role demands having an automation first and continuous improvement mindset. The candidate should drive the adoption of CI/CD tools and support the improvement of the tools sets/processes. improvement of the tools sets/processes.

Behaviors of a Backend: Backend Engineers can articulate clear business objectives aligned to technical specifications and work in an iterative, agile pattern daily. They have ownership over their work tasks, and embrace interacting with all levels of the team and raise challenges when necessary. We aim to be cutting-edge engineers – not institutionalized developers.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

API development using Java, Node and other programming languages.
Understand the concept of API Gateway
Strong experience with Event Driven Architecture (preferred), like Kafka
Experience with developing RESTful web services
Well versed in the API security flow and processes
Experienced with NoSql Databases – DynamoDb/ MongoDB/ Cassandra
Experience in writing native SQL queries
Good experience with cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred)
Experience with Application Monitoring Tools (Splunk, Dynatrace, Cloudwatch etc.)
Take ownership and accountability
Write referenceable & modular code Be fluent areas and have proficiency in many areas Have a passion to learn.
Have a quality mindset, not just code quality but also to ensure ongoing data quality by monitoring data to identify problems before they have business impact.
Take risks and champion new ideas.

Required Experience & Education:

8-11 years of experience in Java.
8-11 years of experience in Node, Python.
5 - 8 years of experience with SQL
3+ Experience working with AWS.
5+ Experience on Git, S3 and Jest (or Any Testing Libraries/framework).

Desired Experience: 

Terraform and Jenkins.
Experience with D3 or similar Visualization libraries.
Understand BDD and TDD development methodologies.
Experience- being part of Agile teams – Scrum
Experience working in an agile CI/CD environment; Jenkins experience preferred Knowledge and/or experience.
Health care information domains preferred.

Location & Hours of Work

Full-time position, working 40 hours per week. Primarily based in the Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, India, with flexibility to work remotely as required.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Evernorth is an Equal Opportunity Employer actively encouraging and supporting organization-wide involvement of staff in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts to educate, inform and advance both internal practices and external work with diverse client populations.

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.

Software Engineering Associate Advisor - HIH - Evernorth