Staff Software Development Engineer

Join CVS Health® in shaping a more connected, convenient, and compassionate health experience. We are building a world of health around every individual, fostering an environment where passionate colleagues innovate with purpose, prioritize safety, and deliver quality. Be part of a team dedicated to simplifying healthcare for individuals, families, and communities.

Position Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff Software Engineer to join our engineering team. This pivotal role involves designing, developing, and implementing scalable enterprise applications. As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be responsible for creating high-quality Automation software utilizing React, Microservices architecture, and DevOps practices. The ideal candidate will possess strong logical reasoning and problem-solving skills, contribute to solution architecture, mentor junior developers, and collaborate across teams to drive innovation and delivery excellence.

Expectations for this role:

• Write clean, scalable, and maintainable code following best practices and design patterns.
• Demonstrate strategic thinking to identify vision, plans, and evaluate situations, decisions, and issues across short, medium, and long terms.
• Apply analytical thinking to simplify complex problems, processes or projects into component parts for systematic exploration and evaluation.
• Collaborate with functional teams including business, product, architecture, security, and other engineering teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Provide technical leadership to solve complex problems by analyzing and developing solution strategies and coordinating with multiple teams.
• Mentor junior team members to enhance their technical skills.
• Manage deployments using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Monitor and optimize application performance, and troubleshoot production issues.
• Leverage AI coding tools to streamline development workflows and improve code quality.
• Participate in code reviews, tech talks, and workshops to foster a culture of learning and collaboration.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of technology delivery experience in designing, developing, and deploying Web Applications using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular, RXJS, REDUX, Node.js, AJAX, XML, Bootstrap, React Query, JSON, and PHP.
• 5+ years of experience with Agile processes, including Scrum, Kanban, and/or the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Experience working with a healthcare plan sponsor portal.
• Proficiency with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, and JIRA tools, with a strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working on Azure or GCP Cloud Applications/services.
• Experience in building and integrating RESTful APIs with React.js applications.
• Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
• Experience with E2E frameworks like Playwright and Cypress.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with distributed teams across multiple time zones and geographies.
• Ability to make informed decisions quickly and take ownership of services and applications at scale.
• Comfortable assisting in technical and security audits, ensuring audit recommendations are implemented.
• Strong understanding of delivery practices.
• Strong problem-solving, decision-making, and communication skills.
• Exposure to AI/ML model deployment or prompt engineering.
• Adept at collaboration, execution, and continuous learning.

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is: $106,605.00 - $213,210.00

This range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in this job grade. The actual base salary offer will depend on 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 an award target in the company’s equity award program.

Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members, and communities we serve. We are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and belongs.

Great benefits for great people

We offer a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits, investing in the physical, emotional, and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families. Our benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.
• No-cost programs for all colleagues, including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling, and financial coaching.
• Benefit solutions addressing diverse needs and preferences, including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, and retiree medical access, depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 03/09/2026

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws.