Senior Software Development Engineer

CVS Health

Senior Software Development Engineer at CVS Health designing scalable SMS/MMS services. Collaborating in a product-oriented engineering team focused on member communications.

Posted 7/30/2026full-timeRemote • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $92,700 - $185,400 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in designing and developing scalable messaging services, ensuring compliance with TCPA and CTIA guidelines, and optimizing system performance. Proficient in mentoring engineers and contributing to architectural decisions within a microservices environment.

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Software DevelopmentJavaC#/.NETMicroservice ArchitectureSQL

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Hard Skills

Software Engineering FundamentalsProblem SolvingData StructuresAlgorithmsDesign PatternsConcurrencyDistributed SystemsMessaging APIsRelational DatabasesCode Reviews

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationEffective CollaborationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

TwilioKafkaSQSRabbitMQSQL ServerPostgreSQL

Industry Keywords

TCPA ComplianceCTIA GuidelinesOpt-in/Opt-out ManagementService ReliabilityHigh-volume Messaging

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Distributed SystemsJavaKafkaMicroservices.NETPostgresRabbitMQSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, develop, and maintain scalable services that support inbound and outbound SMS/MMS delivery for member communications
Build integrations with SMS carriers/aggregators and messaging APIs (e.g., Twilio, Syniverse, or similar), including delivery receipts, retries, and failover handling
Ensure platform compliance with TCPA, CTIA, and carrier messaging guidelines, including opt-in/opt-out and consent management logic
Partner with product, compliance, and clinical/pharmacy stakeholders to translate messaging requirements into resilient technical designs
Own service reliability: monitoring, alerting, on-call support, and root-cause analysis for production issues in a high-volume messaging environment
Optimize for throughput and latency across queuing, rate-limiting, and delivery-confirmation pipelines
Write clean, testable, well-documented code and participate actively in code reviews and design discussions
Contribute to architectural decisions around microservices, event-driven design, and API contracts within the messaging ecosystem
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to raising the technical bar across the team

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in software development, including a mix of front-end and back-end technologies within a product-oriented, cross-functional engineering team
Strong foundation in software engineering fundamentals: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, design patterns, and concurrency
Hands-on experience with one or more of: Java, C#/.NET, or similar backend languages, plus experience with distributed messaging/queueing systems (e.g., Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ)
Experience integrating with third-party SMS/messaging or telephony APIs (e.g., Twilio, carrier aggregators) is strongly preferred
Strong SQL skills and understanding of relational databases (e.g., SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
Solid understanding of microservice architecture and API design
Experience designing, implementing, and operating distributed systems at scale
Clear, effective written and verbal communication skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

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