Staff Software Development Engineer, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:
Ireland, Galway

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Employment contract

Salary:

65000.00 - 165000.00 EUR / Year

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Job Description:

CVS Health Digital is looking for hands-on, passionate 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. The Staff Software Development Engineer - Full Stack includes closely working with a team of engineers to drive delivery excellence, partner with business and other IT leaders to build digital assets, provide expert level support to resolve complex issues and provide RCA, identify gaps in systems in current digital eco system and provide solutions to enhance overall performance. All of this is critical to driving Digital growth and improving customer experience.

Job Responsibility:

Lead the design, development, and implementation of B2B applications using Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, Search, NoSQL (MongoDB/Cassandra) and/or Kafka
Develop and maintain scalable REST and GraphQL APIs
Act as a technical owner across strategic efforts involving the Cloud, backend solution, streaming, ML and more within Catalog
Implement pub/sub messaging solutions using Kafka, ensuring reliable and efficient data flow between services
Collaborate with product managers, architects, and other engineering teams to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions
Participate in code reviews, provide mentorship to junior developers, and champion best practices in software development and testing
Integrate cloud-based services into application architecture, ensuring optimal performance and security of cloud-native applications
Drive the adoption of CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, building, and deployment to enhance and secure the software supply chain
Analyze and resolve complex issues in the applications, identifying root causes and implementing robust fixes
Continuously optimize application performance and scalability through code improvements, cloud service optimizations, and infrastructure as code practices
Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and tools, and proactively suggest new approaches to improve the software development process
Partner with technical leaders within CVS and the open-source community and contribute to product strategy, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering
Promote reusability of API's across various clients while offering configurations
Encourage and maintain engineering excellence on the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on
Develop mindshare by collaborating and discussing ideas
Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and deal with multiple priorities

Requirements:

7+ years of experience in systems analysis and application program development including both front end and backend
7+ years of development experience in one or more of the following languages: Java, SpringBoot, Search, NoSQL and/or Kafka
5+ years of experience within an Agile software development
3+ years of Web application development experience using Angular JS/React, CSS, Html, JavaScript and / or Nodejs
3+ years of experience building Enterprise solutions and managing client requirements and technical solutions
3+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies
possess a track record developing in GCP/Azure or similar public cloud environment
2+ years of experience in a DevOps role working with various technologies like Kubernetes, Argocd, CircleCI, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter, Artifactory
2+ years of CI/CD Pipeline automation experience
Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Nice to have:

Experience with Machine Learning and/or Artificial Intelligence (Vertex AI, Gen AI, GPT 3.5) modeling
Familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC
Experience working with any Cloud Providers/Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services such as Google Cloud Storage, Kubernetes (GKE) specifically from a software development perspective
Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka or equivalent pub/sub messaging systems, including designing and implementing Kafka topics and consumers
Experience with containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes with a focus on deploying and managing applications

What we offer:

Flexible work arrangements
Opportunity to divide time between Galway office and home office
State-of-the-art flexible work environment
Inclusive benefits for colleagues and their families

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
November 03, 2025

Expiration:
December 22, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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