Senior Software Engineer

CVS Health, the parent company of Signify Health, is increasing investments in digital, data, analytics and technology and Signify Health is excited to be involved!

We are hiring for a dynamic new initiative for CVS Health that will run out of our state-of-the-art offices at Bonham Quay. This is your opportunity to be involved with a pioneering business that is transforming health care in the United States by making customer experiences more seamless, convenient and personalised.

CVS Health is focused on driving business agility and growth through technology, data, digital and experiential innovations. ‘Digital First, Technology Forward and Data Driven’ is not simply an aspirational goal for the company, but a prerequisite to accelerated growth.

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.

As we reflect on our learnings and successes from remote work, we aim to provide a new state of the art flexible work environment in our Galway facility at Bonham Quay to support those objectives. Careers with offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time between our Galway office and their home office.


How will this role have an impact?

The Senior Software Development Engineer will design and develop critical applications that ensure high availability, resilience, and performance. This role is key to improving the experience of pharmacy colleagues, leading to a better customer experience from when a prescription is received at CVS to when the customer leaves with their medication.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain high standards of software quality by writing high-quality code and following established standards and best practices to run the applications at scale.
• Optimize application for non-functional requirements and most importantly enable the applications to deploy and run at scale.
• Ensure cross team collaboration with other Software Engineers, Product Managers and Architects.
• Work with the Product Team in the refinement of user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable.
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Build and deploy application components as part of CI/CD process
• Will be responsible for end-to-end application delivery including coordination with required teams for production deployment
• Continuously monitors application health/metrics and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Triaging any issues in production
• Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering

• 6+ years of overall Software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing microservices and cloud native apps using Java, REST API, GraphQL, Spring Core, Spring MVC Framework, Spring Boot Framework JPA (Java Persistence API (Or any other ORM), Spring Security and similar tech stacks (Open source and proprietary), with any Relational Database (Oracle, PostgreSQL etc.)
• 3+ years of experience working with Unit testing using frameworks such as Junit, Mockito or JBehave.
• 3+ years of experience with messaging technologies like Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• 3+ years of experience build and deploy services using Gradle, Maven, Jenkins/Github Actions etc. as part of CI & CD process.
• 3+ years of experience with agile methodology required.
• 2+ years of experience with any public cloud (Preferably Google Cloud Platform).

• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with optimization skills to improve performance, scalability, and usability of our applications.
• Experience working with distributed systems.
• Experience with application containerization and container management
• Good presentation and verbal communications skills
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and a motivated learner.
• Good understanding and working experience in IT Security best practices and other compliance standards such as ADA, HIPAA, PCI DSS 
  

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or equivalent work experience is required.