Senior Backend Architect – Digital Health Platforms

CVS Health; Washington; Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 222,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and drive complex digital solutions. You will lead architecture, implement scalable software with Java, Spring, GraphQL, and microservices, and mentor engineers while championing testing and CI/CD practices.

You will collaborate with product, operations, and clinical partners to shape technical direction and ensure reliability, security, and performance across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience with backend focus.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and architecture of scalable digital solutions.
• Write production-ready code and develop complex software components.
• Drive architecture decisions ensuring scalability, performance, security, and maintainability.
• Mentor junior engineers through reviews and pairing.
• Champion CI/CD, testing, and observability best practices.
• Lead QA efforts with unit and integration tests and debug production issues.
• Collaborate with product, operations, and clinical stakeholders.
• Drive agile ceremonies and remove technical blockers for the team.
• Create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Backend development

Java

GraphQL/REST

Microservices

Database design

Git & CI/CD

Code reviews

Cloud-native

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

GKE

Kafka

Cloud Functions

Job description

CVS Health Digital seeks a Senior Software Development Engineer to design, build, and drive complex digital solutions. You will lead architecture, implement scalable software with Java, Spring, GraphQL, and microservices, and mentor engineers while championing testing and CI/CD practices.

You will collaborate with product, operations, and clinical partners to shape technical direction and ensure reliability, security, and performance across platforms.