Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health•Island, KY

4d•$130,295 - $260,590

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. CVS Health Digital is looking for an individual contributor with Java/J2EE and Spring boot development experience to help build our next-generation platform to promote the delivery of use cases into products focused on helping people live healthier lives. We love to collaborate and help each other and we want someone to share that ideology. The Staff Development Engineer will be a hands-on, individual contributor working on cutting-edge applications and products. You 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.

Requirements

7+ years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
5+ years experience with one of the following programming languages/tools: Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Reactive programming, Caching Strategies, Kubernetes or Kafka
3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments
Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically

Nice To Haves

Experiencing architecting, designing, delivering and operationalizing scalable microservices-based web/ webservices applications in cloud native environments
Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Harness, GHA
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 in performance tuning and code optimization
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
Hands-on experience with AI-driven code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar platforms

Responsibilities

Design and develop cloud scalable services in a containerized and CI/CD environment
Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations
Collaborate in solving problems complex data, features, service, platform issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
Partner with business and product management counterparts to define and prioritize opportunities to improve value creation and align on shared KPIs to measure success
Implement Circuit Breakers and Service Discovery patterns for the Microservices and ensure that patterns are stringently followed for every integration inbound to/outbound from Microservices
Design and implement real-time Streaming of data from No-SQL/SQL databases to analytics
Work with business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions that would reduce cost, expenses and time to market
Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
Assist in risk assessment, Tech audits and mitigation activities