Backend Capability Product Specialist

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🕒 July 8

⚜️ Louisiana, Montana, +3 more states – Remote

⚜️ Louisiana – Remote 🦬 Montana – Remote 🌲 North Carolina – Remote 🎸 Mississippi – Remote ⚓ Rhode Island – Remote

💵 $106.6k - $284.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

🏥 Healthcare

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

Healthcare • Healthcare Insurance • Retail

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company dedicated to improving health access and affordability. The company focuses on a comprehensive approach that includes health services, health insurance, and pharmacy benefits management. Through its subsidiaries, such as Aetna and CVS Caremark, CVS Health offers a range of services that facilitate wellness, condition management, and affordable prescription drug coverage. CVS Health operates neighborhood pharmacies, provides mail-order pharmacy services, and manages specialty medication programs, aiming to make healthcare convenient and accessible for everyone. Driven by a mission to connect people with essential care services, CVS Health is committed to fostering healthier communities and supporting the wellbeing of all individuals.

📋 Description

• Own the product roadmap for backend systems, APIs, and data platform capabilities • Define API design standards, versioning strategies, and developer experience (DX) principles • Drive the vision for a scalable, event-driven microservices architecture in collaboration with engineering leads • Establish and govern API governance frameworks including authentication, rate limiting, and SLA commitments • Lead strategy and execution for third-party integrations, partner APIs, and marketplace ecosystem development • Identify and prioritize integration opportunities with EHR/EMR platforms (Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, etc.), payer systems, and health data networks • Collaborate with technical architects to evaluate and adopt interoperability standards: HL7 FHIR R4 / R4B SMART on FHIR Direct Messaging / TEFCA / QHIN participation • Manage the integration roadmap from vendor evaluation through production go-live and ongoing lifecycle management • Monitor and synthesize healthcare technology market trends, regulatory shifts (ONC, CMS), and competitive landscape to inform the backend roadmap • Evaluate emerging capabilities — including commercial AI model APIs (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT), generative AI integration, and real-time data streaming — and translate them into business-ready features • Build ROI-based business cases for platform investments, with quantified impact projections tied to revenue, retention, or efficiency • Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and pre-sales teams to understand unmet integration and API needs from the market • Serve as the primary product owner embedded with backend engineering squads — running sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder reviews • Translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable product specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria • Act as the internal API product evangelist, enabling internal teams to leverage platform capabilities effectively • Define and track platform KPIs: API adoption, uptime, latency, integration success rates, and developer satisfaction

🎯 Requirements

• At least 7 years of product management experience • 4+ years focused on backend systems, APIs, or platform products • Proven track record delivering SaaS platform features at scale — ideally in a B2B or enterprise context • Deep understanding of RESTful API design, webhooks, async messaging, and modern integration patterns • Hands-on experience with API management platforms (e.g., Apigee, AWS API Gateway, Kong, MuleSoft) • Strong ability to build investment cases grounded in ROI modeling, market sizing, and competitive differentiation • Demonstrated experience leading API or platform product strategy — not just execution • Comfortable reading technical documentation, reviewing API specs (OpenAPI/Swagger), and participating in architectural discussions

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • paid time off • retirement savings options • wellness programs • comprehensive benefits package