Principal Software Engineer, CVS Health

CVS Health

Location:

United States, Hartford

Category:

IT - Software Development

Contract Type:

Employment contract

Salary:

144200.00 - 288400.00 USD / Year

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Job Description:

Technical leadership role to guide a broad portfolio of data, analytics, software and machine learning assets ensuring Aetna’s network teams are equipped with competitive intelligence. Build best-in-class full-stack applications integrating advanced analytics capabilities within Google Cloud Platform.

Job Responsibility:

Software Development Mastery: Demonstrated excellence in software development with a disciplined approach to problem-solving
Excels at breaking down complex problems into multi-step plans within an Agile development environment
Engineering Excellence: Develops solutions that are well engineered, flexible, resilient, operable, maintainable, and can be delivered on schedule
Ensures a balance between tactical and strategic technology solutions
Architectural Expertise: Strong architectural sense with experience in various software architectures and messaging patterns
Proven ability to drive large solutions across multiple applications
Cloud Distributed Systems: Experience working in high-volume, high-frequency distributed systems and tackling the hardest scalability problems presented
Experience with major cloud platforms (GCP preferred) and modern service, interface, and messaging patterns
Full Stack Mastery: Experienced building full-stack applications leveraging front-end frameworks (React (preferred), Angular, other JS frameworks)
Expertise connecting a UI to APIs (FastAPI or other Python-based frameworks preferred), all the way to the backend (ideally OLAP cloud data stores) – and offering technical and product leadership across the stack
On the Cutting Edge: Experience integrating excellence in software development, cloud platforms, and distributed system design and architecture into systems involving machine learning and language models
Investigate and design novel and unique technology solutions and lead the building of POCs to validate technical hypothesis and provide reference architectural solutions
Analytics & Non-Relational Exposure: Broad knowledge encompassing the data and analytics space: work orchestration, OLAP and non-relational databases (BigQuery, Mongo Atlas, KV stores, caches)
Critical Thinking: Strong critical thinking skills with the ability to move fluidly between high-level abstract thinking and detailed implementation
Strong collaboration skills in technical settings, able to help others understand complex ideas by simplifying and clarifying with ease
Leadership: Proven leader with the ability to mentor strong, cohesive technical teams
Excellent collaboration, influencing, coaching, and coalition-building skills
Passion and Engagement: Passionate about technology with a high technical aptitude
Engaged, focused, and driven to deliver best-in-class solutions
Communication Skills: Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with stakeholders at all levels
Regulatory Compliance & Security: Good understanding of healthcare or other regulated industries, particularly how to manage regulated data in a complex distributed environment where encryption is the default.

Requirements:

8+ years of software industry experience with 4+ years as a technical leader
5+ years leading technical architecture initiatives that impact many value streams
5+ years designing and developing distributed systems, employing a disciplined approach
8+ years involved in requirements analysis, estimation within a formal SDLC
8+ years of mastery with development languages (Python, Java, C#, Go, etc.)
8+ years of relational databases, including in the cloud
5+ years of non-relational databases (document stores, KV stores, caches)
5+ years architecting solutions in any major cloud
5+ years with micro-services architecture, APIs, real-time system integrations
5+ years of automated unit and integrating testing
3+ years of experience and mastery with Python
3+ years of experience and mastery with JavaScript, including UI frameworks like React or Angular
3+ years with asynchronous messaging
2+ years with machine learning models in a production environment
1+ years with large language models in a production environment.

Nice to have:

Experience building and operating large scale distributed systems
Ability to learn quickly and adapt to change requirements
Experience with SAFE practices or able to work in SAFE practices and agile methodologies
Experience related to security-oriented projects
Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps
Software or analytics experience within the healthcare industry
Strong architectural skills, including diagramming
Excellent communications and presentation skills with the ability to communicate effectively in visual, verbal, and written form to teams, clients, and leadership
Ability to manage multiple competing priorities with minimal supervision.

What we offer:

Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k) retirement savings plan
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Fully-paid term life insurance plan
Short-term and long-term disability benefits
Numerous well-being programs
Education assistance
Free development courses
CVS store discount
Discount programs with participating partners
Paid Time Off (PTO)
Paid holidays.

Additional Information:

Job Posted:

March 19, 2025

Expiration:

April 28, 2025

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

Hybrid work

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