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# Staff Software Development Engineer

- **Company:** CVS Health
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $118,450 - $236,900
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Software Quality, Continuous Integration, Cursor, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Inventory Management Software, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Prometheus, Microsoft Copilot, Software Engineering, Enterprise Software Applications, Cloud Monitoring, GitHub Copilot, Grafana, Spring-boot, Software Application Programming, Event Driven Architecture, Containerization, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Integration Frameworks, Restful APIs, Splunk, Dynatrace, Docker, Jenkins, Microservices
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/09B59658B7524592BE4183D1DE0BF4F4/job/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

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.