Staff Software Development Engineer

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

CVS Health, the parent company of Signify Health, is increasing investments in digital, data, analytics and technology and Signify Health is excited to be involved!
We are hiring for a dynamic new initiative for CVS Health that will run out of our state-of-the-art offices at Bonham Quay. This is your opportunity to be involved with a pioneering business that is transforming health care in the United States by making customer experiences more seamless, convenient and personalised.
CVS Health is focused on driving business agility and growth through technology, data, digital and experiential innovations. ‘Digital First, Technology Forward and Data Driven’ is not simply an aspirational goal for the company, but a prerequisite to accelerated growth.
Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.
Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.
As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide a new state of the art flexible work environment in our Galway facility at Bonham Quay to support those objectives. Careers with offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time between our Galway office and their home office.
POSITION SUMMARY
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 Staff 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.
 
What we Expect of You:

• 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

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of experience in systems analysis and application program development including both front end and backend
• 7+ 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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Pay Range

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