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Position Summary
As a Senior Java Software Development Engineer, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team and 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
- 7+ years of end-to-end software engineering experience across the full SDLC, with strong fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and concurrency.
- 5+ years of experience with Java and Spring Boot, including REST API development, testing (JUnit), and engineering best practices.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with a major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, or Azure), with a preference for GCP and experience using services such as Cloud Storage, Cloud Composer, Dataflow, and IAM.
- 3+ years building and maintaining scalable backend systems, microservices, RESTful APIs, and ETL/data quality pipelines.
- 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes and related tooling (GKE, Apigee, Airflow).
- 2+ years working with relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL, MongoDB).
- 2+ years of experience with CI/CD, DevOps tooling, and automated testing, including OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
- 1+ year of experience supporting production deployments, release coordination, observability, and post-release validation.
- Strong communication skills, ability to lead technical discussions, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor junior engineers.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with application performance monitoring and observability platforms.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (e.g., Pub/Sub, Kafka).
- Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident response and root-cause analysis.
- Familiarity with Apigee and Python.
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.
- Healthcare domain experience preferred.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree; or equivalent experience
Anticipated Weekly Hours
40Time Type
Full timePay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
$83,430.00 - $222,480.00This 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 offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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