The Principal Engineer I, reporting to Engineering Manager, will work with the backend engineering teams to develop and execute backend services meeting customer expectations and specifications as discussed and detailed in Epics, Features and Stories (SAFe Agile Process). As Principal Engineer I, you will be directly developing the services. You will partner with other engineers and experts in the broader organization (architects, product managers and fellow engineers) to build products used improve the health outcomes of millions of people. You are considered a subject matter expert in software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle. This includes coding standards, code reviews, source control, validation and support.

In addition, you are expected to be either experienced or conversant in emerging ideas in application development both on the user interface and middle tier technologies. While not necessarily deep in all of these technologies, you should understand them sufficiently to guide the organization in understanding and possibly adopting them if appropriate.

Location:
This position will be a Hybrid role that can be based out of Scottsdale AZ, Buffalo Grove IL, Woonsocket RI, or Dallas TX, but also open to locations outside these areas.

About this Business unit:

• Our mission is to provide customers/members seamless, secure access to CVS’s digital services and give them a one stop shop to manage their information and their orders.
• We strive to make colleague experiences better with a welcoming culture. We are passionate about our technologies and always march towards staying ahead of the curve.
• This team works on applications that make a difference in people’s health outcomes and provide a path to better health.

High Visibility websites you will be working on:

• https://www.cvs.com
• https://www.cvsspecialty.com
• https://www.caremark.com

Work Breakdown % for this roll at CVS health:

• 40% - Hands on work with assigned stories
• 20% - Work with architects, product team on future items
• 20% - Help debug lower environment and production outages and help recover quickly and safely

Pay Range
The typical pay range for this role is:
Minimum: 115,000
Maximum: 230,000

Please keep in mind that this range represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual salary offer will take into account a wide range of factors, including location.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of professional IT experience
• 8+ years of software development and requirement analysis and design experience
• 5+ years of technical leadership experience of architecting complex solutions
• 5+ years of experience in various J2EE technologies including Hibernate, Struts MVC Framework and Spring Framework such as Spring MVC, IOC, AOP and Spring JDBC
• 5+ years of Experience with common API formats (e.g. JSON, XML, Websockets)
• 3+ years of Experience in using Javascript and/or Typescript

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with DevOps technologies such as Kubernetes, Argo, GIT, Jenkins, Maven, JUnit, Docker, JMeter et Familiarity with CI/CD - git, Jenkins
• Experience with cloud computing technologies. Possess a track record developing in GCP or similar public cloud environment
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools and concepts
• Familiar with Agile Methodologies like SAFe
• Experience designing and implementing Caching strategies using the in-memory datastores like REDIS and HazelCast and make them scalable for use at Enterprise level
• Knowledge of strong encryption methodologies, and common authentication patterns
• Understanding accessibility and security compliance (FIPS)

Education
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or equivalent work experience is required

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.