Senior Software Development Engineer - Backend

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.

Position Summary

The Senior Software Development Engineer is responsible for the techno-functional impact analysis, design and code construction activities associated with development of software releases for the CVS Retail Pharmacy systems. Strong technical, functional, and interpersonal skills are key to perform this role successfully. The current suite of systems includes multiple applications including, but not limited, to the Tier 1 systems for Retail Pharmacy (RxConnect).  As a Staff Engineer, you will partner and collaborate with the development manager, business analysts, architects, quality assurance, business partners, developers, and project managers to deliver business change and innovation into our Java based business applications software.  You will be involved throughout the entire development life cycle of a product and must be able to deliver an efficient solution, as well as identify and properly mitigate any risks to the product before deployment to production. 

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience in enterprise/web applications

• 5+ years of experience with backend development in Java-based technologies

• 5+ years of experience working in cloud based technologies using frameworks like Spring, Springboot, Kafka, Redis

• 5+ years hands on system design experience with mission critical applications

• 5+ years of experience with Azure, GCP or other public cloud services, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), SaaS application development/support, CI/CD practices, containerization, Kubernetes, and Agile/DevOps methodologies

• 5+ years experience with Agile methodologies and familiarity with product management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Rally, or equivalent product engineering collaboration tools

• 5+ years of experience working in large scale applications, with large scale dataset & transaction volume

Preferred Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience in enterprise/web applications

• 3+ years of experience in Retail Pharmacy or Healthcare domain

• Master's Degree

• Experience working with Monolithic as well as Microservices based system

• Extensive experience with building and driving adoption of software engineering best practices

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, cloud computing, and microservices architectures

• Strong work ethic, self-starter, and be able to be highly productive in a dynamic, collaborative environment

• Mastery of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines

• Command of architecture, design, and business processes

• Passion for innovation, with a customer-centric mindset focused on delivering exceptional user experiences

• Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographies

• Ability to influence and inspire teams to align technical direction

• Ability to create and execute innovation roadmaps

• Ability to learn/work with emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space

Technology:

• Expert Java programming knowledge on latest JDK versions, Spring framework

• Knowledge of open-source packages especially those provided by Apache, Google, and Spring

• Database knowledge – SQL, NoSQL, table structure, data relationships

• Familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC

• In-depth experience with building application programming interfaces (API) and frameworks

• Experience with API security, analytics, throttling, caching, logging, request and response modifications

• Extensive experience on Monolith to Microservices Migration

• Extensive experience of Microservices Patterns and its right implementation

• Extensive experience of the Cloud Native Development practices and 12 factor apps development

Education

Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

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