The Role
Lead frontend engineering for Cigna’s global web portal and mobile platform. Responsibilities include designing and developing scalable ReactJS and TypeScript solutions, establishing engineering standards, applying TDD and DevSecOps, implementing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD, guiding architecture, delivering projects, and mentoring junior engineers. The role requires strong AWS, database, automation, testing, microservices, and software development expertise, along with leadership and communication skills.
Summary Generated by Built In
Overview
Cigna International Health is initiating a project to modernise its portal and self-service application to bolster the expansion of our health businesses across the globe. We’re actively seeking accomplished leaders to champion our vision and steer us towards building a mobile platform for serving Cigna’s customers all over the world.
We are seeking an experienced Software Engineer to drive our front-end software development efforts in creating high-quality web and mobile solutions. The ideal candidate will engineer technical solutions, produce clean code, and ensure successful delivery of software solutions aligned with business goals.
Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership:
- Provide direction and be responsible for the output of frontend discipline within the application development.
- Implement software engineering strategy, ensuring that it aligns with the overall business and product objectives.
- Own the frontend application development capability for our web portal solution aligned with the product vision as defined by the solution product owner.
- Contribute to the definition of applications development policies, standards, and procedures.
- Mentoring:
- Lead and mentor junior software development team members, fostering a culture of innovation, automation, collaboration, and excellence.
- Take active part in career development and performance of junior software development team members.
- Project Delivery:
- Execute software projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet quality standards.
- Develop solutions using TDD methodology.
- Execute project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
- Architecture and Development: Guide the design principles, and development processes to ensure scalable, secure, and efficient solutions, collaborating with other senior leads.
- Operational Efficiency: Implement DevSecOps to streamline processes, tools, and workflows to optimize engineering operations and enhance productivity.
Requirements
- Experience: Proven experience (6 years) in a senior role within software development for web portals and user interfaces, with a strong technical background.
- Technical Acumen: Extensive knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management strategies, design patterns, DevOps, automation, and best practices. Ability to translate non-functional requirements such as availability, flexibility, stability, ease of maintenance and security.
- Technologies covered: Strong experience in implementing software using ReactJS framework, TypeScript, web servers, relational and non-relational databases, testing strategies.
- Experience with a cloud platform such as AWS and the services available in there to build and host the applications. Key services: S3, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB / RDS, IAM, KMS. Experience with ECS/EKS, Docker and Kubernetes are an advantage.
- Experience with building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation is an advantage.
- Experience with building and deploying application code and configured CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bamboo CI.
- Experience with working in agile teams and understood the concepts of iterative delivery, fail-early & fail-fast, continued improvements.
- Leadership Skills: Good leadership, mentoring, and communication skills to guide and inspire junior technical team members.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
- Optional: Global and regulatory landscapes: Understanding and experience of working practices across multiple geographies. Experience with regional nuances such as tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multi-currency, multi-language etc is an advantage.
- Aware of the concrete effects of architectural decisions – specifically microservice architecture – at the code level, in collaboration with other team members.
Desirable
- Experience of using Jira
About The Cigna Group
Cigna Healthcare, a division of The Cigna Group, is an advocate for better health through every stage of life. We guide our customers through the health care system, empowering them with the information and insight they need to make the best choices for improving their health and vitality. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.Skills Required
- Six years of senior software development experience focused on web portals and user interfaces
- Strong experience with ReactJS and TypeScript
- Experience with web servers, relational databases, non-relational databases, and testing strategies
- Knowledge of software development methodologies, source code management, design patterns, DevOps, automation, and software engineering best practices
- Experience with AWS and services including S3, Lambda, CloudFront, API Gateway, DynamoDB or RDS, IAM, and KMS
- Experience building and deploying application code and configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Experience working in agile teams and using iterative delivery practices
- Leadership, mentoring, and communication skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- Awareness of architectural decisions and microservices at the code level
- Experience with ECS/EKS, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Experience building infrastructure as code with Terraform or CloudFormation
- Understanding of global and regulatory landscapes, including tax rules, regulatory interfaces, multicurrency, and multilingual requirements
- Experience using Jira
Cigna Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cigna and has not been reviewed or approved by Cigna.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Strong bonus outcomes are frequently highlighted, with annual bonuses described as really good alongside above-average salary levels. Stock or long-term incentive elements are also noted as part of the overall package in some roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are portrayed as a meaningful part of total rewards, including generous PTO and flexibility that can enhance the perceived value of compensation. Flexible work-from-home arrangements are repeatedly linked with satisfaction about the overall package.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as broad in design, with preventive care often covered at no charge in-network and options like virtual care and wellness incentives. A large provider network and strong digital tools are positioned as practical advantages when using benefits.
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What We Do
At Cigna, we're more than a health insurance company. We are your partner in total health and wellness. And we’re here for you 24/7 – caring for your body and mind. As a global health service company, Cigna's mission is to improve the health, well-being, and peace of mind of those we serve by making health care simple, affordable, and predictable. Our values are the core of our culture. Our values guide how all 74,000 of us around the world work together, serve our customers, patients, clients, communities, and deliver on our mission.
