
Staff Software Engineer – Lead
CVS Health
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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Salary
💰 $118,450 - $236,900 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect end-to-end solutions spanning frontend, backend, APIs, cloud, and data layers.
- Lead the design and implementation of reusable components, UI libraries, GraphQL APIs, and microservices.
- Partner with UX and product leads to translate user journeys into scalable, secure digital experiences.
- Establish full-stack engineering standards, design patterns, and best practices.
- Write high-quality, production-ready code across both frontend and backend stacks.
- Drive complex debugging, performance tuning, and reliability improvements.
- Implement automated testing across UI, API, and service layers (unit, integration, E2E).
- Build and evolve REST + GraphQL APIs, microservices (Java, Go, Node, Python), and orchestration layers.
- Lead technical execution for major features, re-architecting efforts, or platform modernization initiatives.
- Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on full-stack development, architecture, and clean coding.
Requirements
- 10+ years of full-stack software engineering experience delivering large-scale digital products.
- Expert-level proficiency in: Frontend: React, React Native, TypeScript, JavaScript Backend: Java, Go, NodeJS, Python APIs: REST, GraphQL, gRPC Cloud: Azure, GCP, or AWS with Kubernetes/Docker
- Strong understanding of UX, accessibility (WCAG), responsive design, and performance optimization.
- Experience building resilient distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD, automated testing, GitOps, and observability tooling.
- Strong architecture skills and familiarity with DDD, microservices, and modular monolith patterns.
- Excellent communication and documentation skills.
Benefits
- Affordable medical plan options
- A 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions)
- An 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.
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Hard skills
full-stack software engineeringReactReact NativeTypeScriptJavaScriptJavaGoNodeJSPythonREST
Soft skills
communicationdocumentationmentoringleadership