Staff Software Engineer: Cost Estimation & AI Navigation

CVS Health Corporation; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Paid time off

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver cloud-based applications within a distributed system. You will drive architecture, contribute across services and APIs, and mentor engineers to ensure scalable, secure solutions.

The role focuses on the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio, leveraging AI/GenAI capabilities to improve healthcare navigation and decision support for users nationwide.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience delivering enterprise-scale software solutions in distributed systems environments.
• 5 years of experience in one or more programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or JavaScript.
• 5 years of hands-on experience designing, building, and operating cloud-based enterprise solutions.
• 5 years of experience designing and developing modern microservices and scalable, cost-effective APIs.
• 3 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and DevOps practices.
• 3 years of experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience working with AI/GenAI platforms and applying intelligent capabilities within software products.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of scalable software solutions within the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio.
• Drive architecture and technical design across distributed services, APIs, and platform components to support scalability, resiliency, security, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with product, data science, and engineering teams to translate business priorities into production-ready technical solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across complex initiatives by guiding implementation decisions and managing dependencies.
• Design, build, and enhance cloud-native applications, microservices, and APIs using modern service, interface, and messaging patterns.
• Define and ensure non-functional requirements including performance, availability, failover, scalability, and security.
• Evaluate existing architectures and recommend improvements to reliability and cost efficiency.
• Lead proof-of-concept development and explore emerging technologies including AI/GenAI capabilities.

Skills

Distributed systems

Java

Python

Go

JavaScript

CI/CD

DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

AI/GenAI

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP

GKE

Cloud Run

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, build, and deliver cloud-based applications within a distributed system. You will drive architecture, contribute across services and APIs, and mentor engineers to ensure scalable, secure solutions.

The role focuses on the Cost Estimation & Navigation AI portfolio, leveraging AI/GenAI capabilities to improve healthcare navigation and decision support for users nationwide.