Principal Software Development Engineer

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Position Summary

CVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate, driven 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. This Principal Engineer will be a part of our Aetna Technology organization which is comprised of numerous teams that support, enhance, and create new programs and services that support our suite of clinical products . The development of these programs will help build our next-generation platform to ensure the delivery of use cases into products focusing on helping people live healthier lives. In this role and within this team, you will work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range technical solutions that meet business requirements.

• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning meeting and establish face-to-face communication across all team and Product Owners

• Analyze and contribute to project and business requirements based on product team milestones and priority.

• Actively participate in Agile Scrum team activities including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Scrum, Reviews and Retrospectives

• Be a technologist and work with other Engineers in planning, prioritizing and performing assigned tasks within deadlines

• Will be responsible for end-to-end application development & delivery including production deployment, application operationalization, and observability.

• Develop applications/web services and cloud native apps using Sprint boot , GCP, REST API and other tech stacks (Open source and proprietary)

• Unit testing using framework such as Junit, Mockito

• Build and deploy services using GitHub, CircleCI, Harness as part of CI/CD process in leading Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP or Azure etc.

• Continuously checking and monitoring App health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed

• Be an advocate for and implementer of security best practices

• Adopt and apply industry technology best practices

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years software engineering from ideation to production deployment of software

• 10+ years of full software development life cycle including ideation, coding, coding standards, testing, code reviews and production deployments

• 8+ years of deep expertise in one or more programing languages such as Java

• 5+ years of experience in spring boot, microservices

• 8+ years of experience with modern software development practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Clinical applications

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems.

• Have a strong desire to see others succeed by mentoring and coaching other engineers through pair programing.

• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements.

• Strong understanding of observability and using telemetry to inform decision making.

• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile development methodology.

• Ability to work independently and part of a team.

• Healthcare Domain experience

Education

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

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$144,200.00 - $288,400.00

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-ter