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 Senior Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team and this role will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs while also ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in modern backend development, excellent problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination. This position is critical in maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle.
You Will
Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open-source community and contribute to technical designs, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.
Provide domain knowledge and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision-making, and maintain close oversight of technical execution.
Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on.
Become a trusted decision-maker for important projects with high technical or outcome risk.
Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features.
Bring passion, energy and excitement to the team and organization
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities.
Collaborate with various areas of the organization including business partners, product owners, architecture, security, digital and engineering teams.
Demonstrate ownership and accountability with the ability to thrive in a remote working setup with other team members.
Identify customer needs and pain points and identify self-service automation solutions.
Think “Out of the box” to solve complex issues for the enterprise.
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
Encourage a collaborative, open and dynamic team culture where individuals and team can realize their full potential.
Required Qualifications
5+ years software development experience.
Strong Spring Boot and Angular proficiency.
Ability to work in Cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure and in end-to-end DevOps pipeline.
Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
Strong skills in relational and/or NoSQL databases.
Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.
Ability to ensure features, bug fixes, and tasks are in a “release-ready” state with proper documentation, testing, and approvals.
Experience supporting production deployments and post-deployment validations.
Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to lead technical discussions, clarify requirements, and support junior engineers.
Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently with minimal guidance.
Preferred Qualifications
Healthcare domain experience-e.g. PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA
Prior experience in a hybrid role involving both software development and release/operations management.
Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).
Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree; or equivalent experience
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $222,480.00This 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.
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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:
Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.
Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.
For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/11/2026Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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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.
