Staff 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.

Position Summary

The Staff Engineer will work on the team that will be leading modernization of legacy apps. As a Staff Engineer, you will be directly developing Specialty Pharmacy Initiatives. You will lead ambient projects that address our customer challenges. You will be heavily involved in contributing to modernizing legacy applications and maintain current apps. You will have an opportunity to provide strategic leadership for the software development of our application products that leverage advance technologies.

As a Staff engineer, you will be mentoring/guiding team members, helping drive development decisions, and assisting with architecture design decisions. In this role, you will demonstrate executive level qualities, lead the conversation, have an eye for great design, Hands-on coding as required and a knack for pushing projects from conception to customers.

Key stakeholders that the individual in this role with interact with daily:

• Senior Managers
• Lead Directors
• Value Architects
• Product Owners
• Engineers

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years of backend technology experience, such as Java, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Go, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
• 5+ years of experience in architecting, designing, and delivering scalable microservices-based applications
• 5+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions
• 5+ years of experience working on a project using mature CI/CD practices, source control such as git, and automated testing framework – like JBehave, Cucumber etc
• 5+ years of experience working on Agile teams
• 4+ years of working with large public cloud technologies i.e. GCP(preferred), AWS, Azure

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands on expertise in setting up Cloud Infrastructure – GKE, Compute Engine, VPC Networks, Cloud Run, Load Balancers (Internal & External), Google Edge etc
• Hands on expertise in setting up end to end observability framework
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Having excellent problem-solving skills and having the right attitude towards work
• Proficient understanding of different infrastructure architecture designs
• Experience partnering with product and engineering leaders to deliver high quality technology solutions
• Aware of modern emerging technologies
• Expert level understanding of modern software development practices using tools for version control, CI/CD, testing and deployment
• Developing scalable engineering solutions for cross-team concerns like UI state management, data fetching, build tooling, performance, client observability, analytics, and other architectural challenges

Education

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

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient, and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic prote