Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This role involves designing, developing, and implementing scalable enterprise applications. As a Staff Software Engineer on the team, you will be responsible for designing and developing high-quality Automation software that meets business needs using React, Microservices architecture, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will have aptitude for logical reasoning and problem-solving skills, contribute to solution architecture, mentor junior developers, and collaborate across teams to drive innovation and delivery excellence. 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.

Requirements

7+ years of technology delivery experience in designing, developing, and deploying Web Applications using HTML, CSS (2/3), JavaScript, Typescript, React, RXJS, REDUX, VueJS, Nodejs, AJAX, XML, Bootstrap, React Query, JSON, PHP, Angular
5+ years of experience with Agile processes, such as scrum, Kanban, and/or the Scaled Agile Framework
Experience working with healthcare plan sponsor portal
Experience working with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and JIRA tools, with a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines
Experience working on Azure or GCP Cloud Applications/services
Experience in building and integrating RESTful APIs with react.js applications
Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
Experience in Writing Automated tests

Nice To Haves

Experience working with distributed teams, working across multiple time zones and geographies
Experience in making informed decisions quickly and taking ownership of services and applications at scale
Comfortable assisting in technical and security audits and ensure audit recommendations are implemented
Strong understanding of delivery practices
Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills.
Exposure to AI/ML model deployment or prompt engineering.
Adept at collaboration, execution, and continuous learning

Responsibilities

Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code using best practices and design patterns
Strategic thinking – able to identify a vision along with the plans, which need to be implemented to meet the end goal, evaluating situations, decisions, and issues in the short, medium, and long term
Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
Collaborate across functional teams of the organization including business, product, architecture, security mavens, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality software
Provide technical leadership to solve complex problems by analyzing and developing solutions strategies, coordinating with multiple teams
Mentor junior members of the team to develop their technical skills
Manage deployments using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Monitor and optimize application performance and troubleshoot production issue
Leverage AI coding tools to streamline development workflows and improve code quality
Participate in code reviews, tech talks, and workshops to foster a culture of learning and collaboration