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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer with deep, hands‑on experience building and operating backend, platform, and integration services at scale. In this role, you will design and deliver highly available, secure, and compliant microservices that power healthcare data exchange and platform capabilities.

The ideal candidate is strong in Java, Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and event‑driven systems, comfortable operating in cloud‑native environments, and experienced working in regulated domains. You will partner closely with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver reliable services that integrate with healthcare ecosystems and third‑party platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot, exposing RESTful APIs that are secure, performant, and resilient.
• Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka (producers/consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, consumer groups).
• Model and exchange data using JSON; ensure robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines including unit/integration testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery.
• Partner with Security and DevOps teams to integrate automated security controls (SAST, DAST, dependency & image scanning, secrets management).
• Deploy and operate services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using cloud‑native patterns (GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, managed data services).
• Apply 12‑factor app principles, infrastructure‑as‑code, and configuration management best practices.
• Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards such as HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CCD/C‑CDA, or similar regulated data exchange formats.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, data governance, and platform security requirements, including encryption in transit and at rest.
• Own production readiness: availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency for high‑volume backend services.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues; perform root cause analysis and drive long‑term reliability improvements (SLIs/SLOs, error budgets).
• Implement observability (structured logging, metrics, tracing) to support proactive monitoring and incident response.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussion, mentor junior engineers.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years of professional software development experience with Java/JEE and Spring Boot.
• Strong experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems.
• Proven hands-on experience with Kafka or similar event-streaming platforms.
• Strong understanding of REST API design, JSON data modeling, and OpenAPI/Swagger documentation.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and containerized workloads (Docker; Kubernetes preferred).
• Solid grasp of security fundamentals (OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, secrets management).
• Experience operating production services in cloud environments, preferably GCP.
• Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent industry experience and specialized training are acceptable.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large‑scale data integration platforms.
• Cloud certification preferred (GCP Professional DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, or equivalent).
• Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services.
• Observability, Monitoring, Alerting Systems familiarity(Grafana, Splunk)
• Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus.

Anticipated Weekly Hours

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Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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. 
 

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

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