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.

POSITION SUMMARY

API Platforms will support CVS Health Digital organization’s vision to deliver transformative applications and technology platform services via APIs. The API Senior Development Engineer in this role will build APIs for mission critical applications (both customer facing and internal facing). This Engineer will also build platform components which will enable self-service capabilities for other engineering teams within CVS.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

• Works with a cross-functional team, uses agile practices, writes, debugs, and delivers code.
• Develop API proxies following API standards that connects to backend services using API management platform like Apigee for a seamless data exchange.
• Develop Open API Specification documentation which holds the contract between the teams for end-to-end development cycle.
• Working with Business Units in supporting their engineers and migrating the APIs to Apigee platform.
• Developing shared flows to implement security, traffic control, logging, and error handling as part of common code and call it as part of proxy flows.
• Onboarding the clients consuming the APIs on Developer Portal and promote the re-usability of APIs without rebuilding them.
• Working with the clients in discussing overall architecture of service capabilities and security mechanisms used to consume the APIs, generating, and providing the keys.
• As part of operations, working on unblocking the firewalls and whitelisting IPs between the CVS network and clients for secured transactions.
• Work on proof of concepts and implementation for automation tools that help teams in the development cycle like automate testing for business use cases, develop API proxies and shared flows which helps speed up the work.
• Setting up monitoring and alerts by performing health checks when there is an outage or security attacks which helps to keep up the applications with the minimal outage time.
• Actively participates discussions with stakeholders from User Experience, Architecture, and Operations
• Writes and executes unit tests, conducts code reviews, debugs, and troubleshoots issues to ensure the reliability and stability of digital solutions.
• Leverages programming skills to design and implement efficient and reliable solutions.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of overall IT experience
• 3+ years of experience in building APIs on Apigee or Axway or APIc or Mulesoft API or APIM or Kong gateways
• 3+ years of experience in implementing CI/CD for API Gateways and maintaining "configuration as code."
• Hands-on experience on Apigee Edge or Apigee OPDK (Proxies, shared flows, flow hooks and utilizing caches)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong programming skills in Java, Typescript and JavaScript
• Experience in Front End application development using Angular or React
• Willingness to mentor junior team members
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP)
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
• GCP Certified Engineer
• Healthcare domain experience with a knowledge of delivering FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) APIs to Healthcare teams following FHIR standards, a closed ecosystem of proprietary software, notably electronic health record systems.
• Competency in engineering practices like Test Driven development, customer focus, change & innovation, strategic thinking, relationship building & influencing.

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:

$97,335.00 - $201,900.00

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. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.  
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 08/30/2024