Senior Software Development Engineer

CVS Health

Senior Software Development Engineer at CVS Health designing and maintaining backend services and APIs. Collaborating within a team to ensure quality releases and operational excellence.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • Connecticut • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $101,970 - $203,940 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AirflowETLGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaJavaJenkinsJUnitKubernetesMicroservicesMongoDBPostgresPrometheusSDLCSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs.
Ensure that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production.
Maintain high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and drive operational excellence across the development lifecycle.

Requirements

What you’ll need

7+ years of experience with end-to-end software engineering across the full SDLC.
Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
Strong in Java, Spring Boot, API development, JUnit testing, and coding best practices.
Hands-on experience with GCP services such as Storage Buckets, Composer, Dataflow, and IAM.
Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
Experience building and maintaining ETL/data quality pipelines.
Proficient with Kubernetes, Apigee, GKE, Airflow.
Proficient with Relational and Non-Relational databases - MongoDB, and SQL/Postgres.
Familiar with DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
Strong in automated testing and OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
Skilled in logging/monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and trace logs.
Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.
Ability to ensure features, bug fixes, and tasks are in a “release-ready” state with proper documentation, testing, and approvals.
Experience supporting production deployments and post-deployment validations.
Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to lead technical discussions, clarify requirements, and support junior engineers.
Strong sense of ownership and ability to operate independently with minimal guidance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaSpring BootAPI developmentJUnit testingGCP servicesRESTful APIsmicroservicesETL pipelinesKubernetesautomated testing

Soft Skills

problem solvingcommunicationcross-functional collaborationleadershipownershipindependenceoperational excellencerelease coordinationdocumentationsupporting junior engineers