Senior Engineer - Feature Flagging Platform

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

POSITION SUMMARY
CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. The DevEx team at CVS is building a Feature Flagging platform to enable engineering teams across CVS Digital to control and roll out new features and updates to their applications, at the scale of a Fortune 4 company!

Currently, we are looking for a Senior Engineer to join our team. This Engineer will be a part of a core group building the platform on Open Source technologies and standards to improve how applications and features are delivered and scaled. You will collaborate with the team and the Open Source community to ensure our Feature Flagging platform is robust, performant, secure, and adaptable to business needs.

This is a high-impact, back end focused, engineering role where you will contribute to the APIs for managing feature flags and tracking their performance and evaluations. It is ideal for someone with experience in analytics and leveraging feature flags, with a solid foundation in Node.

Expectations For The Role

• Develop scalable engineering solutions for the feature flagging platform
• Contribute to technical decisions alongside staff and distinguished engineers
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and application teams
• Provide technical support to product teams and advise on best practices
• Actively participate in peer code reviews, to learn from and provide feedback to your fellow engineers
• Contribute unit and functional tests to uphold the quality of the platform
• Ensure adherence to performance & security standards
• Monitor, debug, and optimize application performance
• Engage in continuous improvement projects within the team

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, preferably within a large matrixed environment
• 3+ years of experience within backend software development, specifically with Node and Typescript
• 3+ years of cloud platform experience (GCP preferred)
• 3+ years of experience with RESTful API design and microservice architecture
• 2+ years of experience with PostgreSQL databases, including query optimization and migration management
• 2+ years of experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture (e.g., Docker, Git, GitHub Actions, etc.)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience leveraging observability signals (e.g., logging, metrics, tracing)
• Familiarity working in monorepos
• Contributions to and involvement in Open Source projects
• Interest in leveraging AI to enhance developer experiences
• Experience leveraging feature flagging
• Familiarity with A/B testing & Experimentation
• Familiarity using ORMs
• Familiarity with analytical databases (Clickhouse)
• Experience working as a member of an Agile software development team
• Strong verbal and written communication skills demonstrating technical leadership
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
• Experience working on a project using mature CI/CD practices

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Bring your heart to CVS Health Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver.  Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

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This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls.  The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.  This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. 
 

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• 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.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

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