Senior Engineering Manager API Platform

CVS Health•New York, IL

2d•$118,450 - $260,590

About The Position

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. About The Role At CVS Health, we're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager passionate about making this the place for engineers to build enterprise grade API platform that directly integrates with API gateways such as APIGEE, APIM and Kong. We're building out the API Platform to enable teams across the company to quickly and easily deliver experiences into the hands of our customers, all at the scale of a Fortune 6 company! The API Platform will be leveraged by thousands of engineers across CVS Health building APIs used by millions of customers. We need a strong technical leader for this high performing team who can advocate for best practices, and can collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, architects and leadership to build API platform that our engineers want to use.

Requirements

Proven experience designing and operating backend APIs at scale, especially GraphQL-based platforms
Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, and service-to-service security
Understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals.
7+ years of leadership experience, directly managing individual contributors
7+ years of experience building enterprise grade applications at scale
5+ years of experience with JavaScript
3+ years of experience with TypeScript and modern Node.js backend development
Experience with API gateway technologies such as Kong, Apigee, or Azure API Management
Experience with distributed workflows, asynchronous orchestration, or job-processing systems such as Temporal or similar platforms

Nice To Haves

Experience with Node.js
Experience building accessible web applications.
Exposure to GraphQL and RESTful web services
Experience working with a source versioning tool, such as Git
Experience with testing and proficiency with a testing framework (e.g., Jest, RTL, Cypress, Playwright).
Exposure to DevOps tools, processes, and culture (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, GHA, etc.)
Experience working on a project using mature CI/CD practices

Responsibilities

Set OKRs with your team and ensure the health of those with KPIs
Partner with leaders across engineering, business, and product to build a strategy and roadmap
Collaborate with other teams across CVS Digital to ensure we're building a API platform with our engineer's needs in mind
Keep an eye out for new and emerging technologies that improve performance, delivery, and the developer experience
Hire and retain high performing, deeply technical engineers that care about building a great engineering culture
Lead a team of front-end and backend engineers as they build API platform for CVS Health engineers
Actively participate in the design and architecture process for new capabilities across teams.
Provide technical leadership, direction, clarity, and vision
Coach and mentor team members and contribute to building a strong engineering culture
Create a supportive and safe environment, building trust with your engineers
Provide them with feedback and help them to set attainable goals