Senior Software Development Engineer

As CVS Health continues to grow across our business entities in Ireland, we now have exciting opportunities with our Oak Street Health entity. Oak Street Health is increasing investments in digital, data, analytics and technology and experiential innovations to drive business agility and growth. Oak Street Health is excited to be involved! 'Digital First, Technology Forward and Data Driven' is not simply an aspirational goal for the company, but a prerequisite to accelerated growth. We are hiring for a Senior Software Engineer within our dynamic, new, growth-focused Healthcare Delivery business to drive technology thought leadership across our portfolio of products and capabilities. 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 personalized. 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 healthcare more personal, convenient and affordable. The Team: Do you want to work in a team where your ideas are considered? Where you are working with other engineers you can learn from, highly motivated by the difference their work is making to people's lives? We are looking for Tech Savvy individuals interested in delivering Java/Kotlin Microservices based solutions on AKS/GCP leveraging techniques such as Domain Driven Design. As a Senior Software Engineer within CVS Health's Oak Street business, you will be part of an agile development team, building and working on enterprise grade software systems leveraging cloud technology to build world-class Microservices for our next generation products. This role reports directly to the Engineering Manager of the team & is open to hybrid candidates who can be in the office in Galway two days a week. Responsibilities:

• Maintain high standards of software quality by writing high-quality code and following established standards and best practices
• Collaborate with other Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Architects in the planning, design, development, testing, and maintenance of backend services and API supporting business applications
• 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
• End-to-end application delivery including coordination with required teams for production deployment.
• Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
• Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
• Proactively reviews the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Continuous monitoring of application health/metrics and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Responsible for the security and privacy of all protected health information that may be accessed during normal work activities
• Mentoring of junior engineers

We're ideally looking for an engineer with:

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or relevant degree / work experience
• 8+ years of experience building large consumer-facing products using Java, Spring Boot, Kotlin
• Experience of REST API design best practices
• Experience with application containerization and container management
• Experience with messaging technologies like Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Experience with relational and document databases (Postgres, MongoDB)
• Prior work with cloud-based systems, Azure or GCP experience preferred
• Exposure to caching patterns and technologies (Redis, Couchbase, etc.)
• Experience with TDD and BDD/Unit testing frameworks
• Experience with GenAI tools (Cursor, CoPilot)
• Strong understanding of microservice architecture principles and techniques, domain driven design, object-oriented design principles, and database design and implementation