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At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Position Summary

The Staff Engineer will work on the team that will be leading modernization of legacy apps. As a Staff Engineer, you will be directly developing Specialty Pharmacy Initiatives. You will lead ambient projects that address our customer challenges. You will be heavily involved in contributing to modernizing legacy applications and maintain current apps. You will have an opportunity to provide strategic leadership for the software development of our application products that leverage advance technologies.

As a Staff engineer, you will be mentoring/guiding team members, helping drive development decisions, and assisting with architecture design decisions. In this role, you will demonstrate executive level qualities, lead the conversation, have an eye for great design, Hands-on coding as required and a knack for pushing projects from conception to customers.

Key stakeholders that the individual in this role with interact with daily:

  • Senior Managers
  • Lead Directors
  • Value Architects
  • Product Owners
  • Engineers

Responsibilities

  • Develop backend services using Java and Spring Boot
  • Design and implement solutions deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GKE)
  • Work with distributed systems, including Google Cloud Spanner (Postgres dialect) and Confluent Kafka (or similar pub/sub tools)
  • Collaborate with teams to implement CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Argo CD
  • Ensure high performance and reliability through sound software engineering practices
  • Mentor and provide technical leadership to the frontend engineering team

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience in software engineering from ideation to production deployment of IT solutions
  • 5+ years experience in full software development life cycle including ideation, coding, coding standards, testing, code reviews and production deployments
  • 5+ years of experience with backend Java , Spring Boot and Microservices
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with a public cloud provider
  • 3+ years working with pub/sub tools like Kafka or similar
  • 3+ years of experience with database design/development (Postgres or similar)
  • 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD, or similar)

Preferred Qualifications

  • Demonstrated experience with development and deployment of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs)
  • Must demonstrate innovative mindset, divergent thinking and convergent actions.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts; experience deploying services on GKE is a plus

Education

  • Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$106,605.00 - $213,210.00


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: 08/30/2025

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

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We help people with their health wherever and whenever they need us. And we do it with heart. Because our passion is our purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health™.

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