Staff Software Development Engineer

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:
CVS Health Digital is looking for an individual contributor with Java/J2EE and Spring boot development experience to help build our next-generation platform to promote the delivery of use cases into products focused on helping people live healthier lives. We love to collaborate and help each other and we want someone to share that ideology. The Staff Development Engineer will be a hands-on, individual contributor working on cutting-edge applications and products. You will brainstorm with architects, product managers, data scientists and fellow engineers to build data products used improve the health outcomes of millions of people. The right candidate will be a strong Analytical thinker and be able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically.


Additional Responsibilities:

• Design and develop cloud scalable services in a containerized and CI/CD environment
• Experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing and operations
• Collaborate in solving problems complex data, features, service, platform issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
• Partner with business and product management counterparts to define and prioritize opportunities to improve value creation and align on shared KPIs to measure success
• Implement Circuit Breakers and Service Discovery patterns for the Microservices and ensure that patterns are stringently followed for every integration inbound to/outbound from Microservices
• Design and implement real-time Streaming of data from No-SQL/SQL databases to analytics
• Work with business users, project managers and other engineers to achieve elegant solutions that would reduce cost, expenses and time to market
• Provide ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
• Assist in risk assessment, Tech audits and mitigation activities

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
• 5+ years experience with one of the following programming languages/tools: Java, J2EE, Spring boot, Reactive programming, Caching Strategies, Kubernetes or Kafka
• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies such as AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experiencing architecting, designing, delivering and operationalizing scalable microservices-based web/ webservices applications in cloud native environments
• Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Harness, GHA
• Expert knowledge with functional, imperative and object-oriented languages and methodologies
• Experience with Cassandra and Postgres
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Experience in performance tuning and code optimization
• Individually motivated to be able to see the big picture and prioritize their work to make the largest impact on the business and customers vision and requirements
• Analytical thinking - able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically
• Hands-on experience with AI-driven code generation tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar platforms

Education:

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

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$130,295.00 - $260,590.00

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.

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 06/14/2026

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