Senior API Platform Engineering Lead

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 118,450 - 260,590; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an enterprise API platform team, delivering scalable GraphQL-based APIs integrated with API gateways like Kong, Apigee, and Azure API Management. This role demands strategic leadership, robust security practices, and a focus on developer experience to empower thousands of engineers across CVS Health.

You will partner with product and business leaders to define roadmaps, set OKRs, and ensure architectural excellence while mentoring

Qualifications

• 7+ years of leadership experience directly managing individual contributors.
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Responsibilities

• Design and operate backend APIs at scale, with GraphQL-based platforms.
• Define and enforce authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth, OIDC, JWT).
• Partner with engineering, product, and business leaders to build a strategy and roadmap.
• Lead a high-performing team, driving engineering culture, standards, and outcomes.
• Champion testing, security, accessibility, and maintainable code across the platform.

Skills

Leadership

Enterprise APIs

JavaScript

TypeScript

Node.js

OAuth / OIDC / JWT

API Gateway technologies

GraphQL

Kong

Apigee

Azure API Management

Distributed workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Kong

Apigee

Azure API Management

Temporal

Git

Jest

RTL

Cypress

Playwright

Kubernetes

Docker

GitHub Actions

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead an enterprise API platform team, delivering scalable GraphQL-based APIs integrated with API gateways like Kong, Apigee, and Azure API Management. This role demands strategic leadership, robust security practices, and a focus on developer experience to empower thousands of engineers across CVS Health.

You will partner with product and business leaders to define roadmaps, set OKRs, and ensure architectural excellence while mentoring