Backend Platform & API Strategy Lead

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; New Mexico; Hybrid; USD 106,605 - 284,280; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, APIs, and integration layer of our SaaS product suite. This role blends engineering, business strategy, and market intelligence to build scalable, interoperable systems powering internal and partner integrations.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in product management and 4+ years in backend/API roles, with hands-on experience in SaaS platforms, RESTful design, and health data interoperability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management.
• 4+ years on backend systems, APIs, or platform products.
• SaaS platform features at scale, ideally B2B/enterprise.
• RESTful APIs, webhooks, async messaging, modern patterns.
• Experience with API management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own roadmap for backend systems, APIs, and data platform capabilities.
• Define API design standards, versioning, and developer experience.
• Drive scalable microservices architecture with engineering leads.
• Govern API authentication, rate limiting, and SLA commitments.
• Lead integrations, partner APIs, and marketplace ecosystem.

Skills

Backend product management

SaaS platform

APIs

RESTful API design

Data platforms

EHR/EMR interoperability

ROI modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Apigee

AWS API Gateway

Kong

MuleSoft

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, APIs, and integration layer of our SaaS product suite. This role blends engineering, business strategy, and market intelligence to build scalable, interoperable systems powering internal and partner integrations.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in product management and 4+ years in backend/API roles, with hands-on experience in SaaS platforms, RESTful design, and health data interoperability.