Senior Software Development Engineer

CVS Health • Hartford, CT

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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 including the following:
• 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.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Apigee, GKE, Airflow.
• Proficiency with Relational and Non-Relational databases - MongoDB, and SQL/Postgres.
• Familiarity 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.

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.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, clarify requirements, and support junior engineers.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs
• ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production
• production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination
• maintaining high engineering standards
• ensuring smooth release cycles
• driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle

Benefits

• 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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level