Staff Software Development Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

Position Summary:

At CVS, we're building out the Developer portal to enable teams across CVS Digital to quickly and easily deliver experiences into the hands of our customers, all at the scale of a Fortune 6 company! The Developer Portal will be leveraged by external customers from different companies to utilize CVS Health APIs.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer for the Developer Portal, you'll balance hands-on technical contributions with the strategic leadership needed to guide our platform's long-term architecture and direction. You'll work at the intersection of technical expertise and

organizational influence, advocating for the application's health while helping teams across CVS Digital achieve their goals.

We need a technical leader who can navigate ambiguity, build lasting organizational relationships, and provide technical direction that resonates across engineering teams. This is a unique opportunity to shape both technology and engineering culture from the ground up.

Additional Responsibilities Include

Setting Technical Direction

• You'll collaborate with engineering leaders to establish technical vision and strategy for the Developer portal
• You'll guide architectural decisions that balance immediate business needs with long- term technical health
• You'll develop and socialize technical standards that enable teams to work effectively at scale
• You'll identify and address systemic problems before they become critical issues

Mentorship

• You'll actively mentor engineers through both ongoing relationships and timely technical guidance
• You'll sponsor promising engineers by advocating for their ideas in meetings they can't attend
• You'll help grow the engineering organization by participating in hiring and onboarding
• You'll create opportunities for engineers to take on challenging work that grows their skills

Technical Execution

• You'll write code strategically, focusing on high-leverage components, patterns, and examples
• You'll review code with an eye toward system design, scalability, and maintainability
• You'll contribute to complex debugging and production incidents when your expertise is needed
• You'll identify and resolve critical technical debt that impacts multiple teams

Being Organizational Glue

• You'll build bridges between teams with competing priorities to find technical solutions that work for everyone
• You'll navigate organizational boundaries to unblock important technical initiatives
• You'll ensure critical knowledge is documented and shared rather than siloed
• You'll facilitate technical discussions to help teams reach alignment on complex decisions

Exploration

• You'll investigate emerging technologies that could benefit our platform and developers
• You'll lead proof-of-concepts for high-potential technologies to validate their application at CVS scale
• You'll stay current with industry trends and bring relevant external perspectives into our technical discussions
• You'll provide thoughtful evaluation of technical approaches, grounded in both theory and practical application

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in web development
• 5+ years of experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
• 3+ years of experience in API development
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (React and Next.js preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Track record of technical leadership on projects impacting multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Proven experience mentoring and growing other engineers
• Experience building and maintaining systems at scale
• Experience with front-end architecture and design systems
• Experience building developer tools, libraries or platforms
• Knowledge of modern web performance optimization techniques
• Understanding of API design and GraphQL
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture.
• Experience fostering inclusive engineering practices
• Experience influencing technical decisions without direct authority<