Staff Software Development Engineer - Digital

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

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to lead the design and delivery of Provider facing scalable, high-impact software solutions supporting enterprise healthcare platforms. This role will serve as a technical leader and hands-on individual contributor, driving results, engineering excellence, and cross-team execution across critical initiatives. This position is ideal for a senior engineer who can operate independently, influence across teams, and deliver complex solutions aligned to business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the architecture, design, and development of scalable provider-facing digital products and enterprise healthcare platforms, ensuring solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned with business objectives
• Drive end-to-end software delivery across the full technology stack, leveraging modern technologies including Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, React, TypeScript, APIs, and cloud-native services
• Design and implement highly scalable microservices and distributed systems architectures, including modernization of legacy applications into cloud-based, service-oriented platforms
• Partner closely with Product Management, Business, Architecture, Security, and Operations teams to translate complex business requirements into innovative and scalable technical solutions
• Provide technical leadership for strategic initiatives, influencing architectural decisions, technology selection, engineering standards, and delivery execution across multiple teams
• Design and develop secure, high-availability, high-performance application architectures, ensuring reliability, observability, maintainability, and compliance requirements are met
• Drive engineering excellence through code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and adoption of best practices, fostering a culture of quality, innovation, and continuous improvement
• Implement and optimize cloud-native infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and DevSecOps practices, enabling automated deployment, monitoring, and operational efficiency
• Leverage modern data, caching, and event-driven technologies, including Redis, Kafka, SNS/SQS, relational and NoSQL databases, to improve system performance, scalability, and real-time processing capabilities
• Champion emerging technologies and AI-driven engineering practices, including GenAI-powered development tools and automation frameworks, to accelerate software delivery and enhance product innovation

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale, full-stack applications
• 5+ years of experience with one of the following: Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, Python, Microservices design & development
• 5+ years of experience with one of the following: React, TypeScript-based frameworks
• 3+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps & DevSecOps practices, including tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and infrastructure-as-code for automated deployments
• 3+ years of experience with a public cloud platform (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with API integration and design using REST, GraphQL, and microservices-based architecture
• Experience designing and implementing scalable distributed systems and microservices architectures, including modernization of legacy applications into cloud-native services
• Experience with design and implement solutions using caching technologies / frameworks such as Redis / elastiCache etc., for achieving highest performance and user experience
• Experience with leading complex technical initiatives and cross-functional collaboration, including translating business requirements into scalable technical solutions
• Experience in using GenAI technologies / tools and frameworks to drive innovation and automation in SDLC
• Self-starter with a strong learning mindset; proactive in adopting emerging technologies and driving innovative, scalable and high-performing solutions
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting design & code reviews, and driving engineering best practices, Dev tools and standards across teams
• Strong proficiency in database design and data management, including relational and NoSQL technologies (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MongoDB
• Hands-on experience in design and implement event-driven architecture messaging systems utilizing asynchronous processing frameworks / tools like Kafka and cloud-native message services such as (SNS, SQS etc.,) for handling transactions real-time and distributed processing

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