Senior Software Engineer
At The Cigna Group, we believe people do their best work when they feel seen, supported, and empowered. Our mission is to help people improve their health and vitality, and that starts with having the right people on our team.
The Enterprise DevOps organization enables developers by making availability, security, and agility the path of least resistance. We create platforms and tools that allow engineers to focus on delivering business value while ensuring applications are reliable, secure, and easy to maintain.
The Enterprise Developer Portal Engineer designs, builds, and supports our internal developer portal, which serves as the central entry point for self‑service across CI/CD, environments, compliance, and runtime platforms. This is a full‑stack role focused on developer experience, platform integrations, and reusable “golden paths” that help engineers build and deploy software efficiently and securely.
Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve golden paths for common developer workflows to improve productivity and consistency
- Partner with platform and product teams to expose capabilities through the developer portal
- Build, operate, and maintain the Backstage core platform, including backend services and proxy integrations
- Manage configuration, secrets, authentication, and deployment pipelines
- Implement authentication and authorization using OAuth, OpenID Connect, and SAML
- Own and maintain the Backstage Catalog, including entity models, metadata, ownership discovery, and validation
- Develop and manage Backstage Scaffolder templates, reference implementations, and reusable actions
- Integrate enterprise systems such as source control, CI/CD, artifact repositories, runtime platforms, ITSM/CMDB, and observability tools
- Create APIs, SDKs, or services (REST, GraphQL, MCP) to expose portal capabilities programmatically
- Embed security and compliance guardrails such as secrets management, policy checks, and vulnerability scanning
- Automate audit evidence collection across the software supply chain and portal workflows
- Define and monitor service‑level objectives (SLOs) for portal reliability, catalog freshness, and documentation builds
- Implement observability, dashboards, alerting, and participate in incident response and root‑cause analysis
- Establish governance models for component ownership, lifecycle management, and contribution standards
Qualifications:
Required
- Front‑end development using React, TypeScript, component design, and accessibility best practices
- Back‑end development with Node.js, Express, NestJS, or similar frameworks
- Experience working with Backstage, including Catalog, Scaffolder, TechDocs, permissions/RBAC, or plugin development
- Integrations with tools such as GitHub or GitLab, CI/CD platforms, ServiceNow, SonarQube, artifact repositories, or observability tools
- Understanding of identity and security concepts including OAuth/OIDC, SAML, JWT, RBAC, and secrets management
- DevOps fundamentals including CI/CD design, Git‑based workflows, containerized applications, and observability
Preferred:
- Experience implementing Backstage in a large or enterprise environment
- Policy‑as‑code and compliance automation using tools such as Open Policy Agent (OPA) or Conftest
- CMDB or ITSM integrations
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.For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary of 130,200 - 217,000 USD / yearly, depending on relevant factors, including experience and geographic location.
This role is also anticipated to be eligible to participate in an annual bonus plan.
At The Cigna Group, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive range of benefits, with a focus on supporting your whole health. Starting on day one of your employment, you’ll be offered several health-related benefits including medical, vision, dental, and well-being and behavioral health programs. We also offer 401(k), company paid life insurance, tuition reimbursement, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays. For more details on our employee benefits programs, click here.
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 need a reasonable accommodation to complete the online application process, please email [email protected] for assistance. Please note that this email inbox is dedicated to accommodation requests only and cannot provide application updates or accept resumes.
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.
Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with all federal, state and local ordinances.
