Senior Backend Engineer - Health Tech, AI

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health, through Oak Street Health, is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to own complex backend workstreams and mentor engineers, delivering reliable systems in a healthcare environment. You will design and optimize data models, ingestion pipelines, and integrations with health networks, while shaping technical standards and ensuring robust test coverage.

You will collaborate with product teams, leverage AI frameworks, and guide cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced, mission-driven setting

Qualifications

• 5+ years building distributed backend systems in production.
• Proficiency building system prompts and utilizing AI frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with MongoDB or comparable document stores.
• Track record of leading technical work across a team - not just executing it.
• Experience with cloud-native deployment (Azure, AWS, or GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design robust system prompts using LLM frameworks.
• Partner with product teams and business stakeholders to understand and automate workflows.
• Design and implement robust file-ingestion pipelines using Databricks.
• Own a domain or service area end-to-end, including its data model and integration contracts.
• Lead code reviews, set technical standards, and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.
• Hold the team accountable for test coverage, observability, and the production health of the services you own.

Skills

Distributed backend systems

AI frameworks

System prompts design

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

MongoDB

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Job description

CVS Health, through Oak Street Health, is seeking a Sr Software Engineer to own complex backend workstreams and mentor engineers, delivering reliable systems in a healthcare environment. You will design and optimize data models, ingestion pipelines, and integrations with health networks, while shaping technical standards and ensuring robust test coverage.

You will collaborate with product teams, leverage AI frameworks, and guide cross-functional delivery in a fast-paced, mission-driven setting