Description

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

At CVS, we're building an Infrastructure Platform to enable teams across CVS Digital to quickly and safely deploy code and operate applications at the scale of a Fortune 10 company! The Infrastructure Platform will be leveraged by hundreds of engineers across Retail, Pharmacy, Health Solutions, and Aetna writing applications that will be used by millions of customers.

The Staff Software Development Engineer is a high visibility, hands on software engineering role that will help lead the implementation of a modern application resource self service provisioning. To be effective in this role, you must have a passion and knowledge for building highly scalable systems while working across a wide net of teams and skillsets.

This is a new team at CVS, and we need a strong technical leader who can work with a high level of freedom and autonomy, advocate for best practices, and can collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, architects and leadership to build a platform that engineers want to use. This is a unique opportunity to help build a platform from the ground up and set the standard for exceptional code and safe deployments for a large company.

Expectations for this Role

• You are a self-starter who can see the big picture and prioritize their work to make the largest impact on the business
• You are a technologist who can work with other engineers to plan, prioritize and perform assigned tasks within deadlines
• You can develop technical solutions in collaboration with other engineers across CVS Digital to ensure we're building an infrastructure platform with our customer's needs in mind
• You will lead the implementation of a self-service platform that enables engineers to deploy code safely, quickly, and easily
• You will keep an eye out for new and emerging technologies that improve performance, delivery, and the developer experience
• You actively participate in peer code reviews, providing feedback to your fellow engineers to make them better and to improve the quality of the software we deliver
• You enjoy automating developer pain away by developing APIs, CLIs, bots, etc
• You approach all engineering work with a performance lens and make it easy for teams to identify performance bottlenecks
• You find joy and pride in coaching and mentoring mid to early career software engineers
• You look for opportunities to share what you've learned with the broader engineering organization

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of overall backend development experience on enterprise class applications
• 5+ years partnering with architecture, product, and program management teams to influence product development decisions
• 4+ years of backend technologies, such as Java, Spring Boot, Golang, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and large public cloud technologies i.e. GCP, AWS, etc.
• Experience with leading teams who follow a Scrum/Agile development methodology

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with backend APIs
• Experience with industry cloud providers
• Experience with Java
• Experience with Golang
• Experience automating through scripting and/or CLIs
• Experience with observability for infrastructure services
• Experience training and mentoring other engineers
• Ability to understand the performance of a largely scaled infrastructure platform
• Ability to identify customer needs and pain points and identify solutions
• Ability to present the benefits and drawbacks of various architecture designs for infrastructure

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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/15/2026

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