Staff Software Development Engineer - Fulfillment

CVS Health • Island, KY

5d • $106,605 - $284,280

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• 7+ plus years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
• 7+ 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
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

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
• 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

• medical
• dental
• vision coverage
• paid time off
• retirement savings options
• wellness programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree