Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health Corporation; Connecticut; Remote; USD 130,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a passionate Staff Software Development Engineer who will work on innovative healthcare solutions. The candidate will join a dynamic team responsible for delivering modern health applications, ensuring application quality, and driving digital transformation within the company. Strong experience in software development and cloud technologies is essential.

Benefits

401(k) plan with company contributions

Employee stock purchase plan

No-cost wellness programs

Flexible work schedules

Tuition assistance

Qualifications

• 7+ years software engineering experience including design, coding, and deployment.
• Experience in Java and building APIs using Springboot.
• Background in healthcare applications preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of engineers to deliver software products.
• Develop applications/web services focusing on health care solutions.
• Participate in Agile Scrum activities and project planning.

Skills

Application Development

Agile Methodology

Cloud Computing

API Development

Software Development Lifecycle

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

GitHub

CircleCI

GCP

AWS

Job description

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Staff Software Development Engineer

Apply remote type Remote/Hybrid locations CT - Work from home time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago time left to apply End Date: May 30, 2025 (1 day left to apply) job requisition id R0551651

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary:

CVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate, driven Staff Software Development Engineer to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who wants to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. This Staff Software Development Engineer will be a part of our Aetna Technology organization which is comprised of numerous teams that support, enhance, and create new programs and services that support our suite of clinical and interoperability products.

The development of these programs will help build our next-generation platform to ensure the delivery of use cases into products focusing on helping people live healthier lives. In this role and within this team, you will work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology. In addition, the Staff Development Engineer will Facilitate discussions between Application Architects and developers during the design phase.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer, you will:

• Be a technologist and work with other Engineers in planning, prioritizing and performing assigned tasks within deadlines
• Lead, mentor and work with a team of engineers onsite and offshore to deliver multiple use cases and products.
• Will be responsible for end-to-end application development & delivery including production deployment, application operationalization, and observability.
• Develop applications/web services and cloud native apps using Sprint boot , GCP, REST API and other tech stacks (Open source and proprietary)
• Unit testing using framework such as Junit, Mockito
• Build and deploy services using GitHub, CircleCI, Harness as part of CI/CD process in leading Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP or Azure etc.
• Continuously checking and monitoring App health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Be an advocate for and implementer of security best practices
• Adopt and apply industry technology best practices
• Partner with application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning meeting and establish face-to-face communication across all team and Product Owners
• Analyze and contribute to project and business requirements based on product team milestones and priority.
• Actively participate in Agile Scrum team activities including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Scrum, Reviews and Retrospectives

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years experience in software engineering from ideation to production deployment of software
• 7+ years experience in full software development life cycle including ideation, coding, coding standards, testing, code reviews and production deployments
• 7+ years experience in one or more programing languages such as Java
• 7+ years experience with modern software development practices
• 3+ years experience supporting Health care clinical applications
• Experience in building APIs using Springboot, Java11+, Spring, Junit
• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems
• Experience in creating/managing GCP storage Buckets, Data Composer workflow, Dataflow jobs, IAM (Service Account/Roles) Management.
• Experience in data extraction, transformation, loading (ETL), data quality checks, database management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Writing automated unit and mock test cases for code coverage
• Experience in developing APIs using HL7 Da Vinci FHIR standards to ensure high-quality data exchange
• Deployment and troubleshooting application in Cloud environment (GCP)
• Experience with Kubernetes, Apigee, GCP -GKE, Dataflow, Airflow. MongoDb, SQL, Postgres SQL, SOAP services, IntelliJ and Devops: Git, Jenkins, Github Actions.
• Experience in log ingestion and building dashboards using Prometheus and Grafana.
• Use of OAuth2.0 and JWT tokens
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• Query and decipher logging entries by application tiers and components using trace logs
• Form requests in tooling like Postman , SOAP UI to invoke endpoints
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile development methodology
• Ability to work independently and part of a team
• Healthcare Domain experience

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience.)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 - $260,590.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/30/2025

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

About us

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.