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 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.

Required Qualifications

7+ years of experience with end-to-end software engineering across the full SDLC including the following:

• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms,  patterns, concurrency.
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, API development, JUnit testing, and coding best practices.
• Hands-on experience with GCP services such as Storage Buckets, Composer, Dataflow, and IAM.
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/data quality pipelines.
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, Apigee, GKE, Airflow.
• Proficiency with Relational and Non-Relational databases - MongoDB, and SQL/Postgres.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong in automated testing and OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
• Skilled in logging/monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and trace logs.
• 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.
   

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• 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.
• Knowledge of APIGee, Python.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices
• Healthcare domain experience is preferred.
• 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.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree; or equivalent experience

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$101,970.00 - $203,940.00

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. 
 

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: 02/23/2026

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