Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health•Work At Home-Minnesota, MS

About The Position

At CVS, we're building an Infrastructure Platform to enable teams across CVS Digital to quickly and safely deploy code and operate applications at the scale of a Fortune 10 company! The Infrastructure Platform will be leveraged by hundreds of engineers across Retail, Pharmacy, Health Solutions, and Aetna writing applications that will be used by millions of customers. The Staff Software Development Engineer is a high visibility, hands on software engineering role that will help lead the implementation of a modern application resource self service provisioning. To be effective in this role, you must have a passion and knowledge for building highly scalable systems while working across a wide net of teams and skillsets. This is a new team at CVS, and we need a strong technical leader who can work with a high level of freedom and autonomy, advocate for best practices, and can collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, architects and leadership to build a platform that engineers want to use. This is a unique opportunity to help build a platform from the ground up and set the standard for exceptional code and safe deployments for a large company.

Requirements

7+ years of overall backend development experience on enterprise class applications
5+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions
4+ years of backend technologies, such as Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and large public cloud technologies i.e. GCP, AWS, etc.
Experience with leading teams who follow a Scrum/Agile development methodology
Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Nice To Haves

Experience with backend APIs
Experience with industry cloud providers
Experience with Java
Experience with Golang
Experience automating through scripting and/or CLIs
Experience with observability for infrastructure services
Experience training and mentoring other engineers
Ability to understand the performance of a largely scaled infrastructure platform
Ability to identify customer needs and pain points and identify solutions
Ability to present the benefits and drawbacks of various architecture designs for infrastructure

Responsibilities

Lead the implementation of a self-service platform that enables engineers to deploy code safely, quickly, and easily
Keep an eye out for new and emerging technologies that improve performance, delivery, and the developer experience
Actively participate in peer code reviews, providing feedback to your fellow engineers to make them better and to improve the quality of the software we deliver
Automate developer pain away by developing APIs, CLIs, bots, etc
Approach all engineering work with a performance lens and make it easy for teams to identify performance bottlenecks
Coach and mentor mid to early career software engineers
Share what you've learned with the broader engineering organization