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Position Summary

Health100 is an AInative health technology platform that unifies pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions into a single, consumerfocused ecosystem. Powered by Google Cloud AI, we're reimagining personalized and connected health experiences.

As a Staff Software Development Engineer for Health100, you will participate on a product team of 6-10 people (engineers, UX designers, and product managers) to build high-quality, usable products for customers and stakeholders. You will help educate both business and technology personnel on the development process and create products from discovery and framing through iterative development and delivery. You will maintain a user-centered, business-as-priority approach in design and practice. A firm understanding of Java development principles and agile methodologies is crucial for success in this role.

*This role can be based anywhere in the US; hybrid or remote with preference for candidates to work out of our corporate headquarters in Woonsocket, RI.

Responsibilities:

• Set technical direction and standards within an Agile environment, actively participating in sprint ceremonies while guiding architecture and engineering best practices.

• Lead the design and delivery of scalable, user-focused software, owning architectural decisions, conducting design reviews, and ensuring long-term maintainability.

• Develop and elevate high-quality codebases across frontend and backend using TDD, code reviews, and hands-on mentoring to raise overall engineering quality.

• Serve as the primary technical escalation point, resolving complex issues, unblocking dependencies, and providing clear technical judgment on high-risk initiatives.

• Drive execution and collaboration by coordinating releases, ensuring production readiness, and partnering cross-functionally with product, design, security, and platform teams to translate business goals into actionable technical plans.

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Java development experience (Spring Boot / Spring MVC) delivering enterprise solutions in large-scale distributed systems.

• 3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, backend systems and experience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.

• Hands-on experience in cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure and end-to-end DevOps pipelines.

• 2+ yearsof experience using Agile concepts such as continuous integration (CI/CD) and test-driven development (TDD).

• Proven ability to operate independently with strong ownership, and mentor junior engineers effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare domain experience (e.g., PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA).

• Experience with AI/generative AI solutions and technologies.

• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.

• Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).

• Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience).

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company's equity award program.

Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.