Staff Software Development 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 offer flexible work arrangements and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to divide their time.

The Staff Software Development Engineer is responsible for managing the technical needs across the engineering team. They have accountability for the development, operations and support for web-based applications with a microservice-based BE running on Azure.

We are seeking candidates who are passionate to collaborate very closely with Business Stakeholders, Product Managers and Engineering teams in different development environments. They will work closely with senior leaders to ensure that investments are aligned to the Enterprise strategic goals.

• Maintain high standards of software quality by writing high-quality code and following established standards and best practices
• Ensure cross team collaboration with other Software Engineers, Business Analysts and Architects in the planning, design, development, testing, and maintenance of web- and desktop-based business applications
• Lead BE design mentoring more junior engineers on best practices and showing them leadership
• Work with the Product Team in the refinement of user stories that are developer-ready, easy to understand, and testable
• Provide estimates at a User Story level and provide input to work plans
• Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code
• Package and support deployment of code releases
• 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
• Provide third-level support to business users
• Proactively review the Performance and Capacity of all aspects of production: code, infrastructure, data, and message processing
• Perform unit and integration testing before launch
• Responsible for the security and privacy of any and all protected health information that may be accessed during normal work activities

• 8+ years of software development and/or architecture experience.
• Strong foundation in commercial software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns (e.g. Mediator), concurrency.
• Hands-on experience with asynchronous, event-based systems design and architecture using tools like MSMQ, Kafka, RabbitMQ.
• Demonstrable development experience in Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication.

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of APM platforms such as New Relic, Data Dog, Splunk.
• Practical knowledge of Kubernetes microservice orchestration patterns
• Database and ORM experience, PostgreSQL and LinkQ ideal
• Experience with agile methodologies
• Healthcare technology experience