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
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will define and drive the technical direction for modern, cloud‑native applications built with Flutter across web and mobile. Operating as a senior individual contributor and technical leader, you will partner closely with product, architecture, and engineering leadership to make pragmatic, high‑impact design decisions that balance speed, quality, and long‑term maintainability.
You will remain hands‑on with critical‑path systems while mentoring senior and staff engineers, translating prototypes into scalable, production‑grade platforms. You will establish clear expectations for reliability, security, performance, and operability, ensuring strong engineering fundamentals—such as testing, observability, and CI/CD—are embedded from day one. Through technical leadership, collaboration, and example, you will elevate engineering quality, accelerate delivery, and foster a culture of craftsmanship, learning, and continuous improvement.
Expectations for the Role
- Set and drive the technical vision across cloud platforms and front‑end web and mobile applications, aligning architecture, standards, and execution
- Serve as a senior technical authority for high‑impact, cross‑team initiatives, guiding architecture, design decisions, and engineering best practices
- Lead solutions from prototype to production, ensuring performance, security, reliability, scalability, and operational readiness
- Define and influence platform, framework, and tooling direction in partnership with engineering leadership, product teams, and the open‑source community
- Mentor senior engineers and foster cross‑functional collaboration while staying current with emerging technologies and driving innovation
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of professional software development experience, including hands‑on Agile delivery of enterprise‑scale, distributed systems
- 5+ years developing user‑facing applications using Flutter, Angular, and/or React across web and mobile platforms
- 3+ years of experience designing and building solutions in a public cloud environment (GCP, Azure, or equivalent)
- 3+ years applying best practices for security, availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance in production systems
- Experience designing or integrating AI or generative AI solutions, including APIs, models, or platforms
- Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives and influence engineering direction without relying on formal authority
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience in the health, wellness, or pharmacy domain
- Contributions to open‑source projects, published technical content, or patented innovations
- Full‑stack development experience, including APIs, data stores, and cloud services
- Strong cross‑functional communication skills with the ability to align stakeholders and drive outcomes across organizational boundaries
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:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
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.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of professional software development experience
- 5+ years developing user-facing applications using Flutter, Angular, and/or React
- 3+ years of experience designing and building solutions in a public cloud environment (GCP, Azure, or equivalent)
- 3+ years applying best practices for security, availability, resiliency, scalability, and performance in production systems
- Experience designing or integrating AI or generative AI solutions
CVS Health Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about CVS Health and has not been reviewed or approved by CVS Health.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive for benefits-eligible colleagues, including medical, dental, and vision with free preventive care and access to virtual care and select no-cost MinuteClinic services. Mental health support is also highlighted with no-cost confidential counseling sessions per issue.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) with a dollar-for-dollar match up to 5% after meeting service and hours requirements. Ownership programs are also offered through an employee stock purchase plan with a stated purchase discount.
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Pay Growth & Progression — A companywide minimum wage floor establishes a baseline that is framed as a positive starting point in some roles and markets. Unionized or high-cost areas are described as having clearer wage scales and step-ups that can materially lift pay over time.
CVS Health Insights
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.
