CVS Health is looking to solve the problem of maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle by hiring a Sr Software Development Engineer to design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Software Development experience.
- Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
- Strong proficiency in backend development (e.g., Python, Java, Go, or similar).
- Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
- Strong skills in relational and/or NoSQL databases.
- Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.
- Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
- Familiarity with cloud vendors: Azure, AWS or GCP.
- Experience establishing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).
- Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.
Responsibilities
- design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs
- ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production
- proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination
- maintaining high engineering standards
- ensuring smooth release cycles
- driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle
- supporting production deployments and post-deployment validations
Other
- Ability to ensure features, bug fixes, and tasks are in a “release-ready” state with proper documentation, testing, and approvals.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
- 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.
