Senior Software Development Engineer - Full Stack

About the position

CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. The Senior Software Development Engineer - Full Stack includes closely working with a team of engineers to drive delivery excellence, partner with business and other IT leaders to build digital assets, provide expert level support to resolve complex issues and provide RCA, identify gaps in systems in current digital eco system and provide solutions to enhance overall performance. All of this is critical to driving Digital growth and improving customer experience. This individual will collaborate with digital leaders, business partners, and IT colleagues to deliver business growth and great customer experiences that differentiate CVS in the market, while ensuring efficient, effective, and safe product development.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of B2B applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Search, NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra) and/or Kafka
• Extensive front end experience with Angular JS/React JS, HTML, CSS, Java Scripts etc
• Develop and maintain scalable REST and GraphQL APIs
• Act as a technical owner across strategic efforts involving the Cloud, backend solution, streaming, ML and more with in Catalog
• Implement pub/sub messaging solutions using Kafka, ensuring reliable and efficient data flow between services
• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
• Participate in code reviews, provide mentorship to junior developers, and champion best practices in software development and testing
• Integrate cloud-based services into application architecture, ensuring optimal performance and security of cloud-native applications
• Drive the adoption of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment to enhance and secure the software supply chain
• Analyze and resolve complex issues in the applications, identifying root causes and implementing robust fixes
• Continuously optimize application performance and scalability through code improvements, cloud service optimizations, and infrastructure as code practices
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and tools, and proactively suggest new approaches to improve the software development process
• Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open source community and contribute to product strategy, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering
• Promote reusability of API's across various clients while offering configurations
• Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on
• Develop mindshare by collaborating and discussing ideas
• Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in systems analysis and application program development including both front end and backend
• 5+ years of development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, SpringBoot, Search, NoSQL and/or Kafka
• 5+ years of experience within an Agile software development
• 3+ years of Web application development experience using Angular JS/React, CSS, Html, Javascript and/or Nodejs
• 3+ years of experience building Enterprise solutions and managing client requirements and technical solutions
• 3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies; possess a track record developing in GCP/Azure or similar public cloud environment
• 2+ years of experience in a DevOps role working with various technologies like Kubernetes, Argocd, CircleCI, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory
• 2+ years of CI/CD Pipeline automation experience

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with Machine Learning and/or Artificial Intelligence (Vertex AI, Gen AI, GPT 3.5) modeling
• Familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC
• Experience working with any Cloud Providers/Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as Google Cloud Storage, Kubernetes (GKE) specifically from a software development perspective
• Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka or equivalent pub/sub messaging systems, including designing and implementing Kafka topics and consumers
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes with a focus on deploying and managing applications

Benefits

• Affordable medical plan options
• 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
• Employee stock purchase plan
• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching
• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility