Staff 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.

Position Summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer to design, develop and implement digital solutions and systems by applying advanced technical expertise to architect and code software applications, conduct system testing and debugging, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to the overall technical direction and innovation of digital engineering projects.

Key Responsibilities

Define and drive the long-term application architecture and technology strategy, aligning solutions with business objectives, scalability, security, and operational excellence

Lead the design and delivery of cloud-native, distributed applications across Web, Mobile, API, integration, and backend platforms

Establish and enforce engineering standards, architectural governance, secure coding practices, and quality benchmarks through design and code reviews

Partner with product, engineering, infrastructure, security, and business leaders to drive complex cross-functional initiatives and strategic technology decisions

Champion reliability, observability, performance engineering, and SRE practices, including monitoring, incident response, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement

Evaluate and promote adoption of emerging technologies, cloud platforms, and AI-assisted engineering practices to improve developer productivity and solution quality

Mentor and guide engineers across teams, fostering technical excellence, innovation, knowledge sharing, and professional growth

Drive DevSecOps, CI/CD automation, release engineering, and cloud-native development practices while ensuring solutions meet enterprise standards for scalability, security, maintainability, and compliance

Lead the design, development, and operationalization of AI-powered and Agentic AI solutions, leveraging LLMs, RAG, workflow orchestration, and enterprise integrations to improve business outcomes and developer productivity

Establish engineering best practices for AI application development, including model evaluation, prompt engineering, observability, security, testing, scalability, and responsible AI adoption

Integrate AI capabilities into enterprise platforms and software delivery processes, ensuring solutions are reliable, maintainable, compliant, and aligned with business and technical requirements

Required Qualifications

7+ years of software development experience in enterprise/web applications

5+ years of experience Cloud Technologies like GCP, AWS, Azure, or other public cloud services

5+ years of experience as full stack developer in node.js or Java-based technologies including microservices, and spring boot framework /REST

3+ years of experience in Agile development practices

3+ years of experience applying AI tools such as Claude, GitHub Copilot, or Amazon Q to accelerate software design, development, testing, and code review

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading architecture and delivery of scalable, secure, and resilient solutions across web, mobile, API, backend, and integration platforms

Expertise in distributed systems, microservices, API design, and enterprise-scale application architectures