CVS Health is building a world of health around every individual, and they are seeking a Staff Software Development Engineer for their Developer Portal. The role involves balancing hands-on technical contributions with strategic leadership to guide the platform's architecture and direction, while mentoring engineers and addressing systemic technical issues.

Responsibilities:

• You'll collaborate with engineering leaders to establish technical vision and strategy for the Developer portal
• You'll guide architectural decisions that balance immediate business needs with long- term technical health
• You'll develop and socialize technical standards that enable teams to work effectively at scale
• You'll identify and address systemic problems before they become critical issues
• You'll actively mentor engineers through both ongoing relationships and timely technical guidance
• You'll sponsor promising engineers by advocating for their ideas in meetings they can't attend
• You'll help grow the engineering organization by participating in hiring and onboarding
• You'll create opportunities for engineers to take on challenging work that grows their skills
• You'll write code strategically, focusing on high-leverage components, patterns, and examples
• You'll review code with an eye toward system design, scalability, and maintainability
• You'll contribute to complex debugging and production incidents when your expertise is needed
• You'll identify and resolve critical technical debt that impacts multiple teams
• You'll build bridges between teams with competing priorities to find technical solutions that work for everyone
• You'll navigate organizational boundaries to unblock important technical initiatives
• You'll ensure critical knowledge is documented and shared rather than siloed
• You'll facilitate technical discussions to help teams reach alignment on complex decisions
• You'll investigate emerging technologies that could benefit our platform and developers
• You'll lead proof-of-concepts for high-potential technologies to validate their application at CVS scale
• You'll stay current with industry trends and bring relevant external perspectives into our technical discussions
• You'll provide thoughtful evaluation of technical approaches, grounded in both theory and practical application

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in web development
• 5+ years of experience in JavaScript and TypeScript
• 3+ years of experience in API development
• Experience with modern front-end frameworks (React and Next.js preferred)
• Experience with Java and Spring Boot
• Track record of technical leadership on projects impacting multiple teams
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences
• Proven experience mentoring and growing other engineers
• Experience building and maintaining systems at scale
• Experience with front-end architecture and design systems
• Experience building developer tools, libraries or platforms
• Knowledge of modern web performance optimization techniques
• Understanding of API design and GraphQL
• Experience with DevOps tools, processes, and culture
• Experience fostering inclusive engineering practices
• Experience influencing technical decisions without direct authority