Senior Software Development Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable 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.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team and this role will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs while also ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in modern backend development, excellent problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination.

This position is critical in maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle.

• Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open-source community and contribute to technical designs, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.
• Provide domain knowledge and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision-making, and maintain close oversight of technical execution.
• Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on.
• Become a trusted decision-maker for important projects with high technical or outcome risk.
• Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features.
• Bring passion, energy and excitement to the team and organization
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities.
• Collaborate with various areas of the organization including business partners, product owners, architecture, security, digital and engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability with the ability to thrive in a remote working setup with other team members.
• Identify customer needs and pain points and identify self-service automation solutions.
• Think “Out of the box” to solve complex issues for the enterprise.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Encourage a collaborative, open and dynamic team culture where individuals and team can realize their full potential.

• 5+ years software development experience.
• Strong Spring Boot and Angular proficiency.
• Ability to work in Cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure and in end-to-end Dev Ops pipeline.
• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
• 3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong skills in relational and/or No
  
  SQL databases.
• Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.
• Ability to ensure features, bug fixes, and tasks are in a “release-ready” state with proper documentation, testing, and approvals.
• Experience supporting production deployments and post-deployment validations.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, clarify requirements, and support junior engineers.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently with minimal guidance.

• Healthcare domain experience-e.g. PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA
• Prior experience in a hybrid role involving both software development and release/operations management.
• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
• Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).
• Experience with SRE or Dev Ops practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree; or…