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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.

POSITION SUMMARY
CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer – Fulfillment who as both a Technical Lead and Individual Contributor will help build our next-generation platform to promote the delivery of use cases into products focused on helping people live healthier lives. This Engineer with expert level backend engineering knowledge will brainstorm with architects, product managers, data scientists and fellow engineers to build data products used improve the health outcomes of millions of people. The right candidate will be a strong Analytical thinker and be able to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts explore and evaluate them systematically. We love to collaborate and help each other and we want someone to share that ideology

Expectations for the Role:

• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ plus years of software development in enterprise / web / cloud applications
• 5+ years of backend software development experience with programming languages/tools including: Java, Spring boot
• 3+ years of experience having a track record developing in AWS or GCP or Azure or similar public cloud environments (GCP preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in design, development and operationalizing microservices based web/webservices application in cloud native environment
• 3+ years of technical lead experience within a matrixed environment, including mentoring junior engineers and working cross collaboratively between architecture, product, etc

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Understand security threats and patterns and ensure adherence to all regulatory initiatives, HIPAA, PHI, PII, locational and contractual data restrictions
• Experience with build automation technologies like Maven, Gradle, Jenkins, Harness
• Expert knowledge with functional, imperative and object-oriented languages and methodologies
• Experience building in large volume subscription platform
• Experience with Cassandra and Postgres - preferred
• Experience with test-driven development and automated testing frameworks
• Experience with Scrum/Agile development methodologies.
• 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

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 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:

$106,605.00 - $284,280.00

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.

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.

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We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/29/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.