Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
Position Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled backend-focused Staff Software Engineer to join our modernization team focused on transforming the legacy CVS pharmacy systems into a cutting-edge, cloud-native platform hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). As part of the team, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing microservices that drive the modernization of critical patient and drug domains. You will work on integrating cloud-native solutions, enhancing performance, and ensuring seamless operation within a highly scalable and secure environment. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in backend development, system design, and a strong understanding of cloud-native software engineering principles.
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*This role is hybrid - 3 days working out of one of our corporate office locations and 2 days working from home.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design, development, and implementation of microservices for the patient and drug domains of RxConnect using Java, Spring Boot, and related technologies.
- Develop and maintain scalable REST and GraphQL APIs as well as backend components that consume GCP services like Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, and Cloud Storage.
- Implement pub/sub messaging solutions using Kafka, ensuring reliable and efficient data flow between services.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, provide mentorship to junior developers, and champion best practices in software development and testing.
- Integrate cloud-based services into application architecture, ensuring optimal performance and security of cloud-native applications.
- Drive the adoption of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment to enhance and secure the software supply chain.
- Analyze and resolve complex issues in the applications, identifying root causes and implementing robust fixes.
- Continuously optimize application performance and scalability through code improvements, cloud service optimizations, and infrastructure as code practices.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and tools, and proactively suggest new approaches to improve the software development process.
- 7+ years of experience in software engineering with a strong focus on backend development, including expertise in Java and Spring Boot.
- 5+ years of experience developing REST APIs and working within microservices architecture.
- 3+ years working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as Cloud Spanner, BigQuery, Kubernetes (GKE), specifically from a software development perspective.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka or equivalent pub/sub messaging systems, including designing and implementing Kafka topics and consumers.
- 3+ years of experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes with a focus on deploying and managing applications.
- 3+ years of experience in working with relational databases (e.g., Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cloud Spanner) with knowledge of schema design and query optimization.
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD tools such as CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar, with a strong emphasis on automating the software delivery process.
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native design patterns, and integrating third-party APIs and services.
- Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to debug complex software issues in a cloud environment.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with experience working effectively in an agile, team-oriented environment.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (High School Diploma and 4 years relevant experience)
Business Overview
Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand - with heart at its center - our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable. We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.
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.
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities. The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits. Eligible employees may enroll in the Company's 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees. The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners. As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off ("PTO") or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies.
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 12/15/2024
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.