Principal Software Engineer

• Optimize application performance, latency, and resource utilization at scale
• Maintain and improve CI/CD infrastructure across NJ engineering teams
• Mentor the principal cohort through their first real Ruby on Rails on-call at Cigna
• Enhance test automation frameworks to increase release confidence
• Carry features from whiteboard sketch to Paterson, NJ production without dropping the baton
• Read the RabbitMQ stack traces others skim past, and trace bugs to their root
• Translate fuzzy product wishes from Cigna stakeholders into shippable Kotlin services

• Written communication clear enough to survive a forwarded email chain
• 9+ years building trust the slow, unglamorous way
• The grit to debug at 4pm on a Friday without complaint
• Ability to learn new technology systems quickly and apply them effectively
• 8 years that taught you which corners can be cut
• A Cigna mindset: scrappy today, scalable tomorrow
• A Paterson network, or the hustle to build one from scratch

Our Cigna offer leans on substance: $181,000 - $266,000, mentorship, benefits, and a flexible schedule that respects Paterson life.