Staff Software Development Engineer

8152 DDAT Ireland Technology Ltd; Galway; On-site; EUR 65,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a senior Java software engineer for Health100, an AI‑native health technology platform unifying pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions in a cloud‑based ecosystem.

Located in Galway, you will set technical direction in an Agile environment, design scalable backend and frontend codebases, and mentor engineers while driving CI/CD and TDD for production readiness with cross‑functional partners.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Java development delivering enterprise solutions.
• 3+ years building RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure and CI/CD pipelines.
• 2+ years applying Agile concepts such as CI/CD and TDD.
• Proven ability to operate independently with strong ownership, and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction and standards within an Agile environment, actively participating in sprint ceremonies while guiding architecture and engineering best practices.
• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, user-focused software, owning architectural decisions, conducting design reviews, and ensuring long‑term maintainability.
• Develop and elevate high‑quality codebases across frontend and backend using TDD, code reviews, and hands‑on mentoring to raise overall engineering quality.
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point, resolving complex issues, unblocking dependencies, and providing clear technical judgment on high‑risk initiatives.
• Drive execution and collaboration by coordinating releases, ensuring production readiness, and partnering cross‑functionally with product, design, security, and platform teams to translate business goals into actionable technical plans.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

Cloud (GCP/Azure)

CI/CD

TDD

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

Azure

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Job description

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

Health100 is an AI‑native health technology platform that unifies pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions into a single, consumer‑focused ecosystem. Powered by Google Cloud AI, we’re reimagining personalized and connected health experiences.

Responsibilities

Set technical direction and standards within an Agile environment, actively participating in sprint ceremonies while guiding architecture and engineering best practices. Lead the design and delivery of scalable, user-focused software, owning architectural decisions, conducting design reviews, and ensuring long‑term maintainability. Develop and elevate high‑quality codebases across frontend and backend using TDD, code reviews, and hands‑on mentoring to raise overall engineering quality. Serve as the primary technical escalation point, resolving complex issues, unblocking dependencies, and providing clear technical judgment on high‑risk initiatives. Drive execution and collaboration by coordinating releases, ensuring production readiness, and partnering cross‑functionally with product, design, security, and platform teams to translate business goals into actionable technical plans.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of Java development experience (Spring Boot / Spring MVC) delivering enterprise solutions in large‑scale distributed systems.

3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, backend systems and experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Hands‑on experience in cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure and end‑to‑end DevOps pipelines.

2+ years of experience using Agile concepts such as continuous integration (CI/CD) and test‑driven development (TDD).

Proven ability to operate independently with strong ownership, and mentor junior engineers effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

Healthcare domain experience (e.g., PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA).

Experience with AI/generative AI solutions and technologies.

Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.

Knowledge of message queues and event‑driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).

Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root‑cause analysis.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience).

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: €65,000.00 - €165,000.00

Application Window

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 31/10/2026

Our Work Experience

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self‑disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.