Staff Development Engineer - Fulfillment

CVS Health•Bismarck, ND

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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 CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer – Fulfillment who as both a Technical Lead and Individual Contributor will help build our next-generation platform to promote the delivery of use cases into products focused on helping people live healthier lives. This Engineer with expert level backend engineering knowledge will brainstorm with architects, product managers, data scientists and fellow engineers to build data products used improve the health outcomes of millions of people. The right candidate will be a strong Analytical thinker and be able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically. We love to collaborate and help each other and we want someone to share that ideology Expectations for the Role:

Requirements

7+ plus years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
5+ years of backend software development experience with programming languages/tools including: Java, Spring Boot, Kafka
3+ years of distributed caching experience
3+ years of experience having a track record developing in AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments (GCP preferred)
3+ years of experience in design, development and operationalizing microservices based web/webservices application in cloud native environment
3+ years of technical lead experience within a matrixed environment, including mentoring junior engineers and working cross collaboratively between architecture, product, etc

Nice To Haves

Understand security threats and patterns and ensure adherence to all regulatory initiatives, HIPAA, PHI, PII, locational and contractual data restrictions
Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Harness
Expert knowledge with functional, imperative and object-oriented languages and methodologies
Experience with Cassandra and Postgres - preferred
Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
Individually motivated to be able to see the big picture and prioritize their work to make the largest impact on the business and customers vision and requirements
Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically

Responsibilities

Architect, design, and implement highly scalable, fault tolerant, cloud native services using container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) and fully automated CI/CD pipelines following DevOps principles
Apply advanced software engineering practices across the full SDLC—including domain driven design (DDD), design patterns, secure coding, automated testing strategies (unit, contract, integration), code quality gates, trunk based development, and continuous observability
Troubleshoot and lead resolution of complex distributed system issues, including data consistency challenges, cross service dependency failures, performance bottlenecks, and distributed tracing analysis using tools
Collaborate with product, architecture, and business stakeholders to define long term technical roadmaps, shape functional and non functional requirements, influence prioritization, and define measurable KPIs to evaluate engineering and business outcomes
Design and enforce microservice resiliency patterns such as circuit breakers, bulkheads, retries with exponential backoff, rate limiting, and service discovery, ensuring consistent adherence across all service integrations
Build and optimize real time streaming data pipelines leveraging event streaming platforms (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub) and CDC frameworks to propagate data from SQL/NoSQL stores to analytics and ML systems with strict latency and throughput requirements
Collaborate closely with engineering, platform, and business teams to deliver cost optimized, scalable solutions—leveraging cloud cost profiling tools, storage tiering strategies, service right sizing, and architectural simplification
Own the reliability, performance, and lifecycle of existing platforms, including production support, SRE aligned operational excellence, automated recovery strategies, and incremental modernization/refactoring
Influence and standardize the use of emerging technologies, frameworks, and tooling to streamline development processes and advance overall search quality
Lead technical risk assessments, architectural reviews, compliance validation, and engineering audit activities, providing mitigation strategies aligned with security, governance, and regulatory frameworks
Mentor and develop engineers across levels, providing architectural guidance, conducting design reviews, establishing engineering standards, and promoting a culture of technical excellence and knowledge sharing

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.

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