Staff Software Development Engineer

CVS Health is a company focused on building a more connected and compassionate health experience. They are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to contribute to their next-generation platform, utilizing Java/J2EE and Spring Boot to develop scalable services and improve health outcomes for individuals.

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

Requirements:

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