Senior Software Development Engineer

CVS Health • St. David's, IL

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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 this role 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

• 5+ years software development experience.
• Strong Spring Boot and Angular proficiency.
• Ability to work in Cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure and in end-to-end DevOps pipeline.
• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
• 3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong skills in relational and/or NoSQL databases.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
• 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.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare domain experience-e.g. PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA
• Prior experience in a hybrid role involving both software development and release/operations management.
• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open-source community and contribute to technical designs, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.
• Provide domain knowledge and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision-making, and maintain close oversight of technical execution.
• Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on.
• Become a trusted decision-maker for important projects with high technical or outcome risk.
• Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features.
• Bring passion, energy and excitement to the team and organization
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities.
• Collaborate with various areas of the organization including business partners, product owners, architecture, security, digital and engineering teams.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability with the ability to thrive in a remote working setup with other team members.
• Identify customer needs and pain points and identify self-service automation solutions.
• Think “Out of the box” to solve complex issues for the enterprise.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Encourage a collaborative, open and dynamic team culture where individuals and team can realize their full potential.

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.

What This Job Offers

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