Sr 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.Position Summary
As a Sr Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team and this role will design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs while also ensuring that releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical expertise in modern backend development, excellent problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination. This position is critical in maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle. .

Required Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

• Prior experience in a hybrid role involving both software development and release/operations management.
• 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.

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and 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.