Staff Software Development Engineer
CVS Health4 days ago
Base Salary
$130k - $261k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and drive long-term application architecture, technology strategy, engineering standards, and architectural governance.
- Lead the design, development, delivery, and operationalization of scalable cloud-native distributed applications across web, mobile, API, integration, and backend platforms.
- Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business leaders on complex cross-functional initiatives and strategic technology decisions.
- Drive reliability, observability, performance engineering, SRE practices, monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, and release engineering.
- Lead the design and implementation of AI-powered and agentic AI solutions using LLMs, RAG, workflow orchestration, enterprise integrations, and AI evaluation and monitoring practices.
- Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, innovation, knowledge sharing, secure coding, responsible AI adoption, and professional growth.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software development experience in enterprise or web applications.
- At least 5 years of experience with cloud technologies such as GCP, AWS, Azure, or other public cloud services.
- At least 5 years of full-stack development experience with Node.js or Java-based technologies, including microservices and Spring Boot.
- At least 3 years of experience with Agile development practices.
- At least 3 years of experience applying AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Amazon Q to software design, development, testing, and code review.
- Preferred experience leading architecture and delivery across web, mobile, API, backend, and integration platforms, with expertise in distributed systems, microservices, API design, and enterprise-scale architectures.
- Preferred experience with SRE, DevOps, CI/CD, automation, containerization, cloud infrastructure management, and technical governance across multiple teams.
- Preferred experience building agentic AI and AI-powered services with Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, LangChain, LLMs, RAG, tool orchestration, and vector databases.
- Preferred experience developing AI evaluation and monitoring strategies covering model quality, hallucination rates, performance, cost, and production business impact.
- Healthcare domain expertise in eligibility, benefits, claims/EOBs, pharmacy, accumulators, ID cards, plan documents, and Commercial or Medicare solutions.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; alternatively, a high school diploma plus 4 years of relevant experience.
Benefits
- Full-time position with medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other benefits based on eligibility.
- Eligible for CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive programs and an equity award target in addition to base pay.
- Application window is anticipated to close on November 22, 2026.
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About CVS Health
CVS Health is a U.S. health care company that operates thousands of retail pharmacies, runs the CVS Caremark pharmacy benefits manager, and owns the Aetna health insurance business. It sells prescriptions, retail health goods, and insurance plans, and provides primary and urgent care through MinuteClinic and other services for consumers, employers, and government programs. Founded in 1963 and headquartered in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, it is a public company traded on the NYSE.