Staff Software Development Engineer

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🔥 11 hours ago

🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $106.6k - $284.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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CVS Health Careers

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10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

🛒 Retail

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Retail • Logistics

CVS Health Careers is the recruitment and employer branding arm of CVS Health, showcasing job opportunities across the company's broad operations—pharmacy retail stores, pharmacy services, health care clinics, distribution warehouses, corporate functions and transportation. The careers site emphasizes purpose-driven work focused on improving access, affordability and quality of health care, and highlights a large workforce (300,000+ employees), inclusive culture, benefits, and hiring resources for applicants.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and maintain secure, performant, and resilient backend microservices using Java/JEE and Spring Boot • Expose RESTful APIs • Implement event-driven patterns using Apache Kafka, including producers, consumers, schema evolution, partitioning, and consumer groups • Model and exchange JSON data with robust validation, versioning, and backward compatibility • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with testing, static analysis, artifact promotion, and progressive delivery • Integrate automated security controls with Security and DevOps teams • Apply 12-factor app principles, infrastructure-as-code, and configuration management best practices • Integrate backend services with EHR systems and healthcare data standards including HL7 v2, FHIR, SMART on FHIR, and CCD/C-CDA • Ensure HIPAA, data governance, encryption, and platform security compliance • Own production readiness, availability, latency, throughput, and cost efficiency • Diagnose production issues, perform root cause analysis, and drive reliability improvements using SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets • Implement structured logging, metrics, and tracing for monitoring and incident response • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions • Mentor junior engineers • Partner with product, architecture, security, and DevOps teams to deliver healthcare-integrated services

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of overall professional software development experience • 5+ years developing backend applications with Java/JEE, Spring Boot and Nodejs • Experience building RESTful microservices and distributed systems • 3+ years deploying and operating services on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), using GKE or Cloud Run, IAM, and managed data services • 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, including Docker; Kubernetes preferred • Solid grasp of OAuth2/OIDC, TLS, and secrets management • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience) • Experience in healthcare, regulated systems, or large-scale data integration platforms preferred • Cloud certification preferred • Familiarity with Spanner, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, or similar managed data services preferred • Familiarity with Grafana or Splunk preferred • Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP) a plus • Strong debugging, performance profiling, and operational troubleshooting skills preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program • Equity award program • Medical coverage • Dental coverage • Vision coverage • Paid time off • Retirement savings options • Wellness programs • Other resources supporting physical, emotional, and financial well-being

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