Staff Software Development Engineer – Backend, Node.js

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🕒 April 22

🦌 Connecticut, Illinois, +2 more states – Remote

🦌 Connecticut – Remote 🌽 Illinois – Remote ❄️ Minnesota – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $118.5k - $260.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔙 Backend Engineer

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CVS Health

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1963

⚕️ Healthcare Insurance

🛒 Retail

🧘 Wellness

Healthcare Insurance • Retail • Wellness

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

• Lead backend architecture across core services, shared platform packages, and workflow-driven backend systems • Own the design and evolution of GraphQL APIs, service boundaries, data contracts, and typed backend integrations • Drive development of backend services built with TypeScript, Node.js, Fastify, PostgreSQL, and workflow orchestration technologies • Shape and improve systems that provision, configure, and integrate with API gateways and related platform infrastructure • Define patterns for service reliability, observability, security, authentication, and operational readiness • Guide schema design, data access strategy, migrations, and long-term maintainability of relational data models • Improve engineering standards through code review, technical design reviews, testing strategy, and mentoring • Partner closely with frontend engineers, product teams, and platform stakeholders to ensure backend capabilities support the full product workflow • Identify architectural risks, reduce knowledge silos, and create scalable patterns for a growing engineering organization • Contribute to a culture of strong ownership, high-quality delivery, and pragmatic technical leadership

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant backend and platform engineering experience in production environments • Strong expertise in TypeScript and modern Node.js backend development • Proven experience designing and operating backend APIs at scale, especially GraphQL-based platforms • Strong experience with backend frameworks such as Fastify, Express, NestJS, or similar, with an ability to make sound architectural tradeoffs • Direct experience with API gateway technologies such as Kong, Apigee, or Azure API Management • Deep experience with PostgreSQL or other relational databases, including schema design, migrations, performance tuning, and data modeling • Hands-on experience with distributed workflows, asynchronous orchestration, or job-processing systems such as Temporal or similar platforms • Strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, and service-to-service security • Experience implementing observability practices including tracing, structured logging, metrics, and production diagnostics • Experience working in containerized environments and modern backend delivery workflows using Docker and CI/CD pipelines • Demonstrated ability to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence architecture across teams • Strong testing instincts, especially around integration testing, backend correctness, and reliable release practices • Experience working effectively in a monorepo or multi-service platform environment

🏖️ Benefits

• medical, dental, and vision coverage • paid time off • retirement savings options • wellness programs • other resources, based on eligibility