Sr. Software Engineer, Backend

Job Description
CVS Health seeks to change the way individuals manage their healthcare by focusing on the features that matter to our customers, building software in a modern, lean way, and deploying continuously into the cloud. Our server teams are focused on building out our provider search and prescription fulfillment APIs. These services are used by multiple applications to help millions of our members effectively find the care and resources they need.

This role is fully remote within commuting distance of CVS Health office in: AZ, TX, IL, NY, MA, RI, GA

What Youll Do

At CVS Health you will immediately be immersed into a highly organized Agile delivery system that might blow your mind. This is not startup-level engineering; this is a Fortune 4 software organization. You will be working tightly within a gender and ethnically diverse team of about six people representing Engineering, QA, and Product. Your team will meet every day to discuss progress and challenges. You will be pairing multiple times per week with your teammates as well as colleagues on other teams to teach and learn. On a rigorous two week cadence you will contribute to design and planning discussions. Every quarter you and your team will actively participate in planning sessions to help ensure both smooth technical delivery and good work/life balance. You will look for ways to improve our service reliability and performance while our customer base continues to grow. You will be working with our product partners to deliver new features that improve user experience. You will be refactoring existing services to decrease time to market and improve developer satisfaction.

Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
Minimum: 75,000
Maximum: 167,000

Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.

Required Qualifications
5+ years of relevant experience
Experience developing and deploying micro-services
Experience translating large features into software designs

COVID Requirements

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
CVS Health requires certain colleagues to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 (including any booster shots if required), where allowable under the law, unless they are approved for a reasonable accommodation based on disability, medical condition, religious belief, or other legally recognized reasons that prevents them from being vaccinated.

You are required to have received at least one COVID-19 shot prior to your first day of employment and to provide proof of your vaccination status or apply for a reasonable accommodation within the first 10 days of your employment. Please note that in some states and roles, you may be required to provide proof of full vaccination or an approved reasonable accommodation before you can begin to actively work.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with our current stack (NodeJS, AWS, Docker)
- Experience deploying and maintaining services on AWS, specifically ECS, ELB and RDS
- 5+ years software development experience
- 3+ years API development experience
- Experience deploying and maintaining services in production serving millions of users
- Willingness to communicate across delivery teams about organizational objectives
- An open mind about different solutions and a willingness to discuss alternatives
- Willingness to actively mentor junior developers

Education
Bachelors degree or equivalent combination of education and years of 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.
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