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Position Summary
The Staff Software Development Engineer serves as the senior technical leader for the Pharmacy Inventory System Modernization program, providing end-to-end technical ownership and ensuring successful delivery of strategic modernization initiatives. This role acts as the primary onsite technology lead, partnering closely with product leadership, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders while guiding and mentoring a distributed offshore development team.
The position is responsible for driving solution architecture, engineering excellence, and technical decision-making across the product lifecycle, ensuring applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Staff Engineer champions modern software engineering practices, AI-assisted development capabilities, and continuous improvement initiatives to accelerate delivery and enhance product quality.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide architecture leadership and technical governance for application design and development.
- Mentor and coach development teams, driving engineering best practices and technical excellence.
- Ensure high-quality, scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
- Drive delivery execution, operational readiness, and production stability.
- Leverage AI-powered engineering tools to improve developer productivity and software quality.
- Partner with product leadership to define and execute strategic product roadmaps.
- Collaborate with architecture, QA, DevOps, security, and business teams to deliver business outcomes.
- Identify, manage, and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and delivery bottlenecks.
- Support critical program activities including design reviews, sprint planning, release management, and issue resolution.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and engineering ownership.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-scale applications.
- 5+ years of hands-on experience leading technical teams and driving architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
- Experience working with globally distributed development teams, including offshore delivery models.
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and modern microservices-based architecture.
- Deep understanding of enterprise application design patterns, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration frameworks.
- Proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with pharmacy, healthcare, supply chain, retail, or inventory management systems.
- Experience modernizing monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures.
- Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, or similar technologies.
- Experience with product commercialization and product-led engineering organizations.
Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$118,450.00 - $236,900.00
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 progressive software engineering experience designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-scale applications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience leading technical teams and driving architecture, design, and implementation decisions
- Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives
- Experience working with globally distributed development teams, including offshore delivery models
- Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and modern microservices-based architecture
- Deep understanding of enterprise application design patterns, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration frameworks
- Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar platforms
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline
- Experience with pharmacy, healthcare, supply chain, retail, or inventory management systems
- Experience modernizing monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures
- Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, or similar technologies
- Experience with product commercialization and product-led engineering organizations
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 — Health coverage includes medical, dental, and vision plans, plus no-cost preventive care and virtual primary and mental-health services. Wellness offerings extend to MinuteClinic programs, gym discounts, and multiple no-cost counseling sessions.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing resources such as confidential counseling, 24/7 support, fitness programs, and employee discounts are presented as part of a broad package. Education assistance, tuition reimbursement, and options to earn certain degrees with no out-of-pocket tuition further enhance total rewards.
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Retirement Support — Retirement programs include a 401(k) savings plan with possible employer matching and an employee stock purchase plan. Financial coaching and related tools are highlighted to support long-term financial security.
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.
