Senior Software Development Engineer
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. Position Summary As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team and will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs while also ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in modern backend development, excellent problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination. This position is critical in maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience with end-to-end software engineering across the full SDLC.
- Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
- Strong in Java, Spring Boot, API development, JUnit testing, and coding best practices.
- Hands-on experience with GCP services such as Storage Buckets, Composer, Dataflow, and IAM.
- Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
- Experience building and maintaining ETL/data quality pipelines.
- Proficient with Kubernetes, Apigee, GKE, Airflow.
- Proficient with Relational and Non-Relational databases - MongoDB, and SQL/Postgres.
- Familiar with DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Strong in automated testing and OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
- Skilled in logging/monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and trace logs.
- Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.
- Ability to ensure features, bug fixes, and tasks are in a “release-ready” state with proper documentation, testing, and approvals.
- Experience supporting production deployments and post-deployment validations.
- Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to lead technical discussions, clarify requirements.
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently with minimal guidance.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
- Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).
- Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
- Knowledge of APIGee, Python.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
- Healthcare domain experience is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs.
- Ensure that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production.
- Proactive production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination.
- Maintain high engineering standards.
- Ensure smooth release cycles.
- Drive operational excellence across the development lifecycle.
- Support junior engineers.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision coverage
- paid time off
- retirement savings options
- wellness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
