
Senior Software Engineer
The Cigna Group
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $130,200 - $217,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
Requirements
- 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
Benefits
- medical
- vision
- dental
- well-being and behavioral health programs
- 401(k)
- company paid life insurance
- tuition reimbursement
- minimum of 18 days of paid time off per year and paid holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
ReactTypeScriptNode.jsExpressNestJSOAuthOpenID ConnectSAMLRESTGraphQL
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingorganizational skillsincident responseroot-cause analysis