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
Health100 is an AI‑native health technology platform that unifies pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions into a single, consumer‑focused ecosystem. Powered by Google Cloud AI, we’re reimagining personalized and connected health experiences.
As a Principal Software Engineer for Health100, you will set the technical direction for cloud-native, event-driven platforms and services. You'll partner with product and architecture leaders to make pragmatic design decisions, mentor senior engineers, and stay hands-on for critical-path components. You will translate prototypes into production systems with clear reliability, security, and performance standards while ensuring strong engineering practices (testing, observability, CI/CD) from day one. Your leadership elevates quality, accelerates delivery, and fosters a culture of craftsmanship and learning.
Responsibilities:
Set and own technical vision and strategy across cloud, backend, automation, and platform domains, solving complex problems and driving aligned execution.
Serve as senior technical authority for high‑impact initiatives, guiding architecture, shaping engineering processes, and ensuring consistent, high‑quality delivery across teams and partners.
Define platform direction and roadmaps by collaborating with engineering leadership, product teams, and the open‑source community, influencing frameworks and core system design.
Lead solutions from prototype to production, contributing to key frameworks and components while ensuring performance, security, reliability, and operational readiness.
Drive innovation and execution excellence by applying deep technical judgment, navigating competing priorities, fostering cross‑team alignment, and staying current with emerging technologies and industry standards.
Required Qualifications
10+ years of software development experience, including hands-on Agile delivery and building enterprise-grade distributed systems.
5+ years of development experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices, including 2+ years working with Kafka or other event-driven platforms.
3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies (GCP, Azure, or equivalent public cloud).
3+ years applying engineering practices for security, resiliency, availability, and scalability in production systems.
Experience with AI/generative AI solutions and technologies.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in the health, wellness, or pharmacy domain.
Contributions to open-source technology or developed patents.
Full-stack development capability.
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to achieve broader organizational goals.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
€80,000.00 - €230,000.00We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 30/09/2026
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software development experience, including hands-on Agile delivery and building enterprise-grade distributed systems.
- 5+ years of development experience in Java, Spring Boot, and Microservices, including 2+ years working with Kafka or other event-driven platforms.
- 3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies (GCP, Azure, or equivalent public cloud).
- 3+ years applying engineering practices for security, resiliency, availability, and scalability in production systems.
- Experience with AI/generative AI solutions and technologies.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience in the health, wellness, or pharmacy domain.
- Contributions to open-source technology or developed patents.
- Full-stack development capability.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with the ability to achieve broader organizational goals.
What We Do
CVS Health is the leading health solutions company that delivers care in ways no one else can. We reach people in more ways and improve the health of communities across America through our local presence, digital channels and our nearly 300,000 dedicated colleagues – including more than 40,000 physicians, pharmacists, nurses and nurse practitioners. Wherever and whenever people need us, we help them with their health – whether that’s managing chronic diseases, staying compliant with their medications, or accessing affordable health and wellness services in the most convenient ways. We help people navigate the health care system – and their personal health care – by improving access, lowering costs and being a trusted partner for every meaningful moment of health. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.
