Staff Software 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.

A Brief Overview
The Staff Software Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who designs and delivers enterprise-grade software powering clinician-facing experiences and clinician performance management. In this role you will architect and build highly distributed, large-scale systems, set technical direction across the team, and raise the engineering bar through mentorship and cross-functional collaboration.

• Lead technical initiatives that solve complex, enterprise-wide problems — ensuring maintainability, performance, and scalability.

• Design, build, and maintain business-critical, enterprise-grade systems using modern technology and techniques.

• Deliver incremental value through iterative, customer-focused releases.

• Drive long-term improvements — focusing on simplicity and maintainability.

• Collaborate with others to develop solutions that meet cross-organization needs.

• Research, propose, and adopt leading-edge technology.

• Continually refine yourself and others through learning and mentorship.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.

• Experience as a polyglot software engineer. Experience with more than one of: C++, C#, Java, Golang, Javascript, Typescript, Python, or similar.

• 6+ months of experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude) to enhance productivity and code quality.

• Experience using full-stack development to ship and operate large-scale systems.

• Strong SQL skills and understanding of RDBMS such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.

• Deep experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems end-to-end in production environments.

• Experience with modern front-end technologies (e.g., React, TypeScript, HTML/CSS/JavaScript) and full-stack development patterns.

• Strong experience with cloud vendors: Azure, AWS, or GCP.

• Clear and effective communication.

• Ability to travel quarterly or as needed.

• 7–10 years of work experience.

• Adept at problem solving and decision making.

• Adept at collaboration and teamwork.

• Adept at growth mindset (agility and developing yourself and others).

• Adept at execution and delivery (planning, delivering, and supporting).

• Adept at business intelligence.

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with asynchronous, event-based architectures.

• Experience with the following technologies: Kafka, REST APIs, contract-first API development, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.

• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform (e.g., New Relic).

• Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with agile methodologies.

Education
Bachelor's degree preferred / specialized training / relevant professional qualification.

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