Principal Software Development Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Job Description

Company: Oak Street Health
Title: Principal Software Engineer
Location: Remote

Role Description:

Oak Street Health is a critical part of healthcare delivery. Our platform is essential to enabling our value-based care model and integral to how our providers take care of their patients. This platform includes our core domain services, the Canopy platform, our data and analytics platform, and much more. At Oak Street Health, you will be influential in the development of innovative products that do more than just building scalable services. Everything you do will have an immediate impact on the health and wellbeing of our patients. 

As a software engineer, you will have an impactful contribution in the delivery of a new kind of platform for healthcare, one built specifically for the clinical team. From design to implementation, you will partner with our stellar engineering, product, and design teams in a fast-paced, agile environment to transform ideas into a reality. Utilizing modern methodologies and open source tools, you will be empowered to push the boundaries of development as we seek to deliver applications that will directly and immediately impact the experience of our teams and our patients.

There is no better time to join our rapidly growing team at Oak Street Health. We can’t think of a mission any more motivating; and, with your help, we can drive change in healthcare for the patients that need us most.

Core Responsibilities:

• Leads the architectural vision and system design for the entire engineering department using a modern technology stack with a core focus on reusability, scalability and performance at scale

• Collaborate with Senior Management & Product leaders in driving technology roadmaps and execution

• Guides engineering teams in anticipation of future use cases and helps them make design decisions

• Contribute in improving our Engineering processes, i.e agile methodology, CI/CD, devops, security and quality initiatives

• Ensures Oak Street's Technology initiative OKR’s are aligned across teams supporting business needs

• Other duties as assigned

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for a professional with:

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related degree / industry experience

• Experience leading an agile team in delivering products

• 10+ years of experience building consumer-facing products using any SPA frameworks (Angular/React/Vue) and building restful API Services using JVM-based technologies (Kotlin or Java), or .NET APIs running in the cloud

• Expert in distributed systems, cloud-based environment either in Azure/AWS using Docker/Kubernetes

• Expert in “design first,” documenting technical designs, and being able to decompose the design into consumable stories for your team.

• Must have experience with event-driven architecture, with Kafka being preferred.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with cross functional business partners

• Experience working in an Agile/Devops environment

• Familiarity with our tech stack – JVM-based technologies, Spring Boot, .NET, Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, OpenAPI, Protobuf - Preferred

• US work authorization

• Someone who embodies being Oaky

What does being Oaky look like?

• Radiating positive energy

• Assuming good intentions

• Creating an unmatched patient experience

• Driving clinical excellence

• Taking ownership and delivering results

• Being relentlessly determined

Why Oak Street Health?

Oak Street Health is on a mission to “Rebui