Job Abstract

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.

POSITION SUMMARY

CVS Healthcare is looking for hands-on, passionate, driven people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers' lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. This Principal Engineer will be a part of our Health Services organization which is comprised of numerous teams that support, enhance, and create new programs and services that support our suite of health services. The development of these programs will help build our next-generation platform to ensure the delivery of use cases into products focusing on helping people live healthier lives. In this role and within this team, you will work on applications and products that are on the forefront of technology.

In this role, you will:

• Partner with application owners, business partners and peer groups regarding long and short-range technical solutions that meet business requirements.
• Participate in Program Increment (PI) planning meeting and establish face-to-face communication across all team and Product Owners
• Analyze and contribute to project and business requirements based on product team milestones and priority.
• Actively participate in Agile Scrum team activities including Sprint Planning, Grooming, Scrum, Reviews and Retrospectives
• Be a technologist and work with other Engineers in planning, prioritizing and performing assigned tasks within deadlines
• Will be responsible for end-to-end application development & delivery including production deployment, application operationalization, and observability.
• Develop applications/web services and cloud native apps using Sprint boot , GCP, REST API and other tech stacks (Open source and proprietary)
• Unit testing using framework such as Junit, Mockito
• Build and deploy services using GitHub, CircleCI, Harness as part of CI/CD process in leading Cloud Platforms - AWS, GCP or Azure etc.
• Continuously checking and monitoring App health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Be an advocate for and implementer of security best practices
• Adopt and apply industry technology best practices

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years software engineering from ideation to production deployment of software
• 10+ years of full software development life cycle including ideation, coding, coding standards, testing, code reviews and production deployments.
• 8+ years of deep expertise in one or more programing languages such as Java
• 8+ years of experience with modern software development practices like CI/CD and collaborative coding tools like GitHub, GitLab, etc
• 5+ years of experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems.
• Experience with Java, Springboot
• Have a strong desire to see others succeed by mentoring and coaching other engineers through pair programing.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements.
• Strong understanding of observability and using telemetry to inform decision making.
• Experience working in a Scrum/Agile development methodology.
• Ability to work independently and part of a team.
• Domain experience within retail or ecommerce

EDUCATION
Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant 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.  We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

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. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit jobs.CVSHealth.com/benefits