Senior Software Development Engineer

As a Senior 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.

Do you have experience in Web services design?, Do you have a Bachelor’s degree?, * 7+ years of experience with end-to-end software engineering across the full SDLC.

• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency.
• Strong in Java, Spring Boot, API development, JUnit testing, and coding best practices.
• Hands-on experience with GCP services such as Storage Buckets, Composer, Dataflow, and IAM.
• Experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/data quality pipelines.
• Proficient with Kubernetes, Apigee, GKE, Airflow.
• Proficient with Relational and Non-Relational databases - MongoDB, and SQL/Postgres.
• Familiar with DevOps tools (Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong in automated testing and OAuth2/JWT-based authentication.
• Skilled in logging/monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, and trace logs.
• 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.
• 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.
• Knowledge of APIGee, Python.
• Strong understanding of agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices
• Healthcare domain experience is preferred.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related degree; or equivalent experience

Connecticut Remote $101,970 - $203,940 a year - Full-time, Pulled from the full job description

• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance
• Dental insurance, 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 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.