Senior Software Development Engineer

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

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  8+ years of software development experience in enterprise-scale or production environments.

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  Strong proficiency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript; experience with Java is preferred.

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  Demonstrated full-stack development capability, including React with TypeScript on the frontend and FastAPI, Spring Boot, or comparable backend frameworks.

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  Proven experience designing, developing, and operating RESTful APIs and microservices at scale.

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  Strong understanding of microservice architecture patterns, including service decomposition, inter-service communication using REST, gRPC, or message queues, and API gateway patterns.

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  Experience implementing event-driven architectures and asynchronous messaging platforms such as Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar technologies.

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  Hands-on database design experience with PostgreSQL, including relational schema design and query optimization; exposure to NoSQL or vector databases is preferred.

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  Working knowledge of authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth2, JWT, and role-based access control.

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  Strong understanding of API security best practices, including input validation, rate limiting, and secrets management.

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  Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/GKE for containerization and orchestration.

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  Experience with CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar platforms, including ownership of the full pipeline lifecycle.

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  Hands-on Google Cloud Platform experience with GKE, Cloud Functions, BigQuery, and related services; Azure experience is a plus.

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  Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments.

• 2+ years of hands-on experience integrating large language models into production applications.

• Practical experience with prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and embeddings; familiarity with fine-tuning and model evaluation is preferred.

• Experience with the Anthropic Claude platform, including API usage and Claude Code, or comparable platforms such as OpenAI or Gemini.

• Familiarity with agentic AI patterns and multi-step reasoning workflows.

• Experience building or configuring Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with logging, tracing, and monitoring practices, including structured logging and distributed tracing.

• Bachelor's degree preferred/specialized training/relevant professional qualification.

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