Staff Software Development Engineer

Were building a world of health around every individual shaping a more connected convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health youll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply innovate with purpose hold ourselvesaccountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger helping to simplify health care one person one family and one community at a time.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently we are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineerwith deep handson experience building and operating backend platform and integration servicesat this role you will design and deliver highly available secure and compliant microservicesthat power healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities.

This Staff Engineer will be strong in Java Spring Boot RESTful APIs and eventdriven systems comfortable operating in cloudnative environments and experienced working in regulated domains. Additionally the Staff Software Development Engineer will partner closely with product architecture security and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services that integrate with healthcare ecosystems and thirdparty platforms.

Expectations for the Role:

• Design develop and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot exposing RESTful APIs that are secure performant and resilient
• Implement event-driven patternsusing Apache Kafka(producers/consumers schema evolution partitioning consumer groups)
• Model and exchange data using JSON; ensure robust validation versioning and backward compatibility
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelinesincluding unit/integration testing static analysis artifact promotion and progressive delivery
• Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls(SAST DAST dependency & image scanning secrets management)
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)using cloudnative patterns (GKE or Cloud Run IAM managed data services)
• Apply 12factor appprinciples infrastructureascode and configuration management best practices
• Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standardssuch as HL7 v2 FHIR SMART on FHIR CCD/CCDA or similar regulated data exchange formats
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA data governance and platform security requirements including encryption in transit and at rest
• Own production readiness: availability latency throughput and cost efficiencyfor highvolume backend services
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysisand drive longterm reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs error budgets)
• Implement observability(structured logging metrics tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response
• Participate in architecture reviews code reviews and technical design discussionmentor junior engineers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7 yearsof professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot
• 5 years building RESTful microservicesand distributed systems along with a strong understanding of REST API design JSON data modeling and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
• 5 year of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred)
• 3 years operating production services in cloud environments preferably GCP
• 3 years of experience with Kafkaor similar event-streaming platforms
• 3 years of security fundamentals(OAuth2/OIDC TLS secrets management)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong debugging performance profiling and operational troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in healthcare regulated systems or largescale data integration platforms
• Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer AWS DevOps Engineer or equivalent)
• Familiarity with Spanner BigQuery Cloud SQL or similar managed data services
• Observability Monitoring Alerting Systems familiarity(Grafana Splunk)
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus

EDUCATION

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand with heart at its center our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer and is an equal opportunity employer as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting hiring promotion or any other personnel action based on race ethnicity color national origin sex/gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression religion age disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active veterans reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience education geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the companys equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers patients members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

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