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:

At CVS, we're building out the Developer portal to enable teams across CVS Digital to quickly and easily deliver experiences into the hands of our customers, all at the scale of a Fortune 6 company! The Developer Portal will be leveraged by external customers from different companies to utilize CVS Health APIs.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer for the Developer Portal, you'll balance hands-on technical contributions with the strategic leadership needed to guide our platform's long-term architecture and direction. You'll work at the intersection of technical expertise and

organizational influence, advocating for the application's health while helping teams across CVS Digital achieve their goals.

We need a technical leader who can navigate ambiguity, build lasting organizational relationships, and provide technical direction that resonates across engineering teams. This is a unique opportunity to shape both technology and engineering culture from the ground up.

Additional Responsibilities Include

Setting Technical Direction

• You'll collaborate with engineering leaders to establish technical vision and strategy for the Developer portal
• You'll guide architectural decisions that balance immediate business needs with long- term technical health
• You'll develop and socialize technical standards that enable teams to work effectively at scale
• You'll identify and address systemic problems before they become critical issues

Mentorship

• You'll actively mentor engineers through both ongoing relationships and timely technical guidance
• You'll sponsor promising engineers by advocating for their ideas in meetings they can't attend
• You'll help grow the engineering organization by participating in hiring and onboarding
• You'll create opportunities for engineers to take on challenging work that grows their skills

Technical Execution

• You'll write code strategically, focusing on high-leverage components, patterns, and examples
• You'll review code with an eye toward system design, scalability, and maintainability
• You'll contribute to complex debugging and production incidents when your expertise is needed
• You'll identify and resolve critical technical debt that impacts multiple teams

Being Organizational Glue

• You'll build bridges between teams with competing priorities to find technical solutions that work for everyone
• You'll navigate organizational boundaries to unblock important technical initiatives
• You'll ensure critical knowledge is documented and shared rather than siloed
• You'll facilitate technical discussions to help teams reach alignment on complex decisions

Exploration

• You'll investigate emerging technologies that could benefit our platform and developers
• You'll lead proof-of-concepts for high-potential technologies to validate their application at CVS scale
• You'll stay current with industry trends and bring relevant external perspectives into our technical discussions
• You'll provide thoughtful evaluation of technical approaches, grounded in both theory and practical application

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in web development
• 5+ years of experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
• 3+ years of experience in API development
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (React and Next.js preferred)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Track record of technical leadership on projects impacting multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Proven experience mentoring and growing other engineers
• Experience building and maintaining systems at scale
• Experience with front-end architecture and design systems
• Experience building developer tools, libraries or platforms
• Knowledge of modern web performance optimization techniques
• Understanding of API design and GraphQL
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture.
• Experience fostering inclusive engineering practices
• Experience influencing technical decisions without direct authority

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)

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 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: 05/01/2026

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