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

CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer with deep, hands‑on experience building and operating backend, platform, and integration services at scale. In this role, you will design and deliver highly available, secure, and compliant microservices that power healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities.

This Staff Engineer will be strong in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event‑driven systems, comfortable operating in cloud‑native environments, and experienced working in regulated domains. Additionally, the Staff Software Development Engineer will partner closely with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services that integrate with healthcare ecosystems and third‑party platforms.

Expectations for the Role:

• Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient
• Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, consumer groups)
• Model and exchange data using JSON; ensure robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery
• Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls (SAST, DAST, dependency & image scanning, secrets management)
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud‑native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, managed data services)
• Apply 12‑factor app principles, infrastructure‑as‑code, and configuration management best practices
• Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CCD/C‑CDA, or similar regulated data exchange formats
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest
• Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high‑volume backend services
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysis and drive long‑term reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)
• Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussion, mentor junior engineers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot
• 5+ years building RESTful microservices and distributed systems, along with a strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation
• 5+ year of practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred)
• 3+ years operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP
• 3+ years of experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms
• 3+ years of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.
• Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large‑scale data integration platforms
• Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)
• Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services
• Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity(Grafana, Splunk)
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus

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. …