Staff Software Development Engineer - Backend

At CVS Health were building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nations leading health solutions company we reach millions of Americans through our local presence digital channels and more than 300000 purposedriven 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 Software Development Engineer is responsible for the technofunctional 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

• 7 years of software development experience in enterprise/web applications

• 7 years of experience as full stack developer in Javabased technologies with focus on backend

• 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

• Experience working in large scale applications with large scale dataset & transaction volume

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in Retail Pharmacy or Healthcare domain

• Masters Degree

• Open to work in Monolith 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 selfstarter 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 customercentric 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 opensource packages especially those provided by Apache Google and Spring

• Database knowledge SQL NoSQL table structure data relationships

• Familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC

• Indepth 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

Bachelors degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual fulltime 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 shortterm incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the companys equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers patients members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits investing in the physical emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions) and an employee stock purchase plan.

• Nocost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings tobacco cessation and weight management programs confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off flexible work schedules family leave dependent care resources colleague assistance programs tuition assistance retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information visit anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/01/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal state and local laws.