Software Engineering Senior Advisor- Hybrid
The Cigna Group · Seattle, WA
$130,200–$217,000from the description
Jul 21, 2026
Seattle, WA
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor role leading a scrum team to design, build, and test REST-based microservices for a next-generation service architecture in the healthcare/pharmacy benefits space. Day-to-day work spans API development in Spring Boot, cloud data migration and pipeline work on AWS (including Kafka, Aurora DB, and MongoDB), code reviews, mentoring, and collaborating with architects and QA on standards and test strategy. Suits an experienced Java engineer with strong cloud and data-pipeline credentials.
Senior level · 4+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 450 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 90–670
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $170,959 (middle half $135,720–$216,519). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The posting lists two overlapping salary ranges: '$180,710–$217,000' in one section and '$130,200–$217,000' in another. The broader range ($130,200–$217,000) is used as it appears in the formal compensation disclosure and likely reflects geographic variation.
Degree requirement: the JD accepts either a Master's + 2 years OR a Bachelor's + 4 years. The minimum hard gate is therefore a Bachelor's degree (with 4 years of experience), so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors and the overall years minimum to 4.
All skills are drawn from the detailed 'Requires experience with' qualifications block, which functions as a hard-gate requirements section. Every named technology listed there is treated as required.
The role is hybrid (not fully remote) per the posting's 'Hybrid Work Schedule' statement.
Healthcare/pharmacy benefit management industry experience is listed as a hard requirement but names no specific technology, so it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
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