Senior Software Development Engineer Galway, Ireland

Overview 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.
This role reports directly to the Engineering Manager of the team and 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, 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
5+ 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
Location: Galway, hybrid work model (two days per week in the Galway office).

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