Staff Software Architect - AI, Microservices & Dashboards

CVS Health; Sioux Falls (SD); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architecture, development, and scaling of core applications. You will bridge backend data systems, AI capabilities, and frontend experiences, while mentoring teams and championing a DevOps culture.

Focus will be on Payer Operations, metadata enrichment, and lifecycle automation. You will drive the design of dashboards, secure APIs, and AI-enabled features, ensuring scalable, reliable cloud deployments with CI/CD and IaC in a security-conscious

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience in full‑stack, architecture, and scalable apps.
• Proficiency with modern JS/TS frameworks and data viz libraries.
• Deep server-side language expertise and microservices design.
• Experience with relational and NoSQL databases and ORM.
• Hands-on AI model integration and LangChain familiarity.
• Public cloud proficiency and CI/CD tools.
• Strong communication of architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design, architecture, and development of scalable web apps.
• Architect dashboards and data visualizations surface insights.
• Design secure APIs and integration layers with diverse data sources.
• Champion AI integration into core products for automation.
• Drive CI/CD, containers, and IaC to ensure reliability.
• Set monitoring and performance profiling standards.
• Mentor frontend, backend, and DevOps engineers; define standards.
• Navigate ambiguity with stakeholder questions to define scope.

Skills

Full-stack

JS/TS frameworks

Backend APIs

AI integration

Cloud & DevOps

Data integration

Relational/NoSQL

Team leadership

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

OpenAI APIs

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Engineer to lead architecture, development, and scaling of core applications. You will bridge backend data systems, AI capabilities, and frontend experiences, while mentoring teams and championing a DevOps culture.

Focus will be on Payer Operations, metadata enrichment, and lifecycle automation. You will drive the design of dashboards, secure APIs, and AI-enabled features, ensuring scalable, reliable cloud deployments with CI/CD and IaC in a security-conscious