Staff Software Development Engineer - API - PSS

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

CVS Health has a bold agenda to transform health care and empower millions of customers on their path to better health. We are creating new solutions to make health care more accessible, more integrated, and more reliable for more people. We are looking for passionate, motivated people who want to join a growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the ground floor of innovation that aims to reinvent what a health care company can be.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable backend APIs and microservices using modern cloud-native architectures.
• Build and maintain an internal API framework that supports Experience APIs, Capability APIs, and Domain APIs.
• Implement orchestration and choreography logic to aggregate and transform data from multiple backend systems.
• Develop backend services using Spring Boot, ensuring modularity, testability, and performance.
• Collaborate with architecture, product, and engineering teams to align technical solutions with business goals.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enforce security, governance, and automation standards.
• Ensure API lifecycle management including mocking, proxying, testing, deployment, and deprecation.
• Integrate APIs with Azure API Management (APIM) and other gateway solutions for observability, rate limiting, and authentication.
• Contribute to API design standards and documentation practices to promote consistency and reuse across teams.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior developers.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of backend development experience with production-grade systems.
• Strong proficiency in Spring Boot, Java, GraphQL and REST API design, including OpenAPI specifications.
• Deep experience in APIs and microservices-based architecture, including service discovery, fault tolerance, and distributed tracing.
• Expertise in container orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with API lifecycle tools such as SwaggerHub and automated testing frameworks.
• 5+ years of experience working on Azure or GCP Cloud Applications/services.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in designing and building software applications with expertise in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Python, FastAPI, Go, as well as the following: Relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, Azure SQL) and NoSQL databases (MongoDB or Cosmos DB), messaging systems like Apache Kafka, MQ, etc., and container orchestration frameworks like Kubernetes, Docker, etc.
• 3+ years of experience leading software development projects by setting project goals, monitoring progress, tracking milestones, communicating with stakeholders regarding project issues, and mentoring junior developers as needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Health Care Industry domain knowledge
• Experience in enterprise development tools and methodologies (XP, Agile) including DevSecOps and DataOps
• Experience integrating with legacy mainframe/mid-range AS400 applications including developing roadmaps for modernization of the applications

Education

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or related field required

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$106,605.00 - $260,590.00

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-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above.  This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. 
 

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