Staff Software Development Engineer

About the role

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 hiring a Staff Software Development Engineer with deep, hands‑on experience building and operating backend, platform, and integration services at scale.

In this technical lead role, you will design and deliver highly available, secure, and compliant microservices that power healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities. The ideal candidate will be strong in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event‑driven systems. While also being comfortable operating in cloud‑native environments, and experienced working in regulated domains. The Staff Engineer will partner closely with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services that integrate with healthcare ecosystems and third‑party platforms.

Expectations For The Role:

Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient

Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, consumer groups)

Model and exchange data using JSON; ensure robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery

Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls (SAST, DAST, dependency & image scanning, secrets management)

Apply 12‑factor app principles, infrastructure‑as‑code, and configuration management best practices

Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CCD/C‑CDA, or similar regulated data exchange formats

Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest

Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high‑volume backend services

Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysis and drive long‑term reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets)

Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response

Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussion, mentor junior engineers

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

7+ years of overall professional software development experience

5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Nodejs

+ experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems

3+ years of deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud‑native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, managed data services)

Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms

Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation

Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred)

Solid grasp of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large‑scale data integration platforms

Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent)

Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services

Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity(Grafana, Splunk)

Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus

Experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP

Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments .

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/27/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.

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