Staff Software Development Engineer

The Staff Software Development Engineer serves as the senior technical leader for the Pharmacy Inventory System Modernization program, providing end-to-end technical ownership and ensuring successful delivery of strategic modernization initiatives. This role acts as the primary onsite technology lead, partnering closely with product leadership, enterprise architecture, and business stakeholders while guiding and mentoring a distributed offshore development team.

The position is responsible for driving solution architecture, engineering excellence, and technical decision-making across the product lifecycle, ensuring applications are scalable, secure, reliable, and aligned with enterprise standards. The Staff Engineer champions modern software engineering practices, AI-assisted development capabilities, and continuous improvement initiatives to accelerate delivery and enhance product quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide architecture leadership and technical governance for application design and development.
• Mentor and coach development teams, driving engineering best practices and technical excellence.
• Ensure high-quality, scalable, secure, and maintainable software solutions.
• Drive delivery execution, operational readiness, and production stability.
• Leverage AI-powered engineering tools to improve developer productivity and software quality.
• Partner with product leadership to define and execute strategic product roadmaps.
• Collaborate with architecture, QA, DevOps, security, and business teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate technical risks, dependencies, and delivery bottlenecks.
• Support critical program activities including design reviews, sprint planning, release management, and issue resolution.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, accountability, and engineering ownership.

• 10+ years of progressive software engineering experience with a proven track record of designing, developing, and delivering enterprise-scale applications.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience leading technical teams and driving architecture, design, and implementation decisions.
• Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for large-scale modernization and cloud transformation initiatives.
• Experience working with globally distributed development teams, including offshore delivery models.
• Strong expertise in Java , Spring Boot , and modern microservices-based architecture.
• Deep understanding of enterprise application design patterns, RESTful APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration frameworks.
• Proficient in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes .
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools including GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or Cloud Monitoring.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with pharmacy, healthcare, supply chain, retail, or inventory management systems.
• Experience modernizing monolithic applications into microservices-based architectures.
• Knowledge of AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Microsoft Copilot, Cursor, or similar technologies.
• Experience with product commercialization and product-led engineering organizations., Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.

$118,450.00 - $236,900.00

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. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.

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.

This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.