Staff Software Engineer - Health Tech Platform, Scale

CVS Health; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Job summary

Signify Health is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join a collaborative team responsible for designing, delivering, and operating distributed, business-critical systems. This role emphasizes technical leadership, scalable architecture, and practical delivery across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development in polyglot environments, experience with cloud platforms, and a passion for building innovative health-tech solutions.

Qualifications

• 5 years of software development experience.
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms and concurrency.
• Experience as a polyglot software engineer across multiple languages.
• Full-stack development experience for large-scale systems.
• Strong SQL and RDBMS knowledge (SQL Server/PostgreSQL).
• Distributed systems design and cloud vendor experience.
• Clear communication and ability to travel quarterly.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives solving enterprise-wide problems for maintainability, performance and scalability.
• Design, build and operate business-critical, distributed systems.
• Deliver value through incremental, customer-focused releases.
• Drive long-term improvements for simplicity and maintainability.
• Collaborate across teams to meet cross-organization needs.
• Research and adopt leading-edge technology; mentor others.

Skills

C++

C#

Java

Golang

JavaScript/TypeScript

Python

SQL

Distributed systems

Cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Kafka

REST APIs

Protobuf

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Signify Health is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to join a collaborative team responsible for designing, delivering, and operating distributed, business-critical systems. This role emphasizes technical leadership, scalable architecture, and practical delivery across the enterprise.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of software development in polyglot environments, experience with cloud platforms, and a passion for building innovative health-tech solutions.