Staff Engineer - Android

At CVS Health, we’re building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care.

As the nation’s leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Staff Engineer - Android, will work on the team that brings CVS customers the customer-facing Flagship CVS app. As a Staff Engineer, you will be helping advance our architecture and Mobile Product, working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, analysts to deliver great user experiences. You will partner with Apps Platform Engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers and fellow Feature Team engineers to build products used make our powerful omni channel shopping an easy and seamless experience. You will be considered a subject matter expert in software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle as well as in our Health and e-Commerce domain.

About this business unit: CVS Mobile App (aka Retail App) is the fastest growing business unit in the organization – more than million daily average users. Apart from engineering, the team consist of talented Product Owners and UX designers.

Work breakdown structure for this role:

In this role, you will be spending certain amount of time developing Android code especially complex use-cases. In addition, you will be partnering with Product, UX and Engineers to iterate the features and improving our Product. You will also be mentoring/guiding team members on regular basis. In this role, the scope of development is not just limited to feature work but also will involve foundational architecture improvements.

Other responsibilities may include (but not limited to):

• Improve and maintain our mobile apps CI and CD infrastructure and pipelines. Provide high level tooling support to team engineers
• Collaborate to drive solutions that would reduce cost and time to market
• Be responsible for end-to-end application delivery including coordination with required teams for production deployment
• Continuously monitoring application health and KPIs, support triage of any production issues as and when needed
• Collaborate in troubleshooting complex data, features, service, platform issues and perform root cause analysis to proactively resolve product and operational issues
• Be an advocate of security best practices, champion and support the importance of security within engineering
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to the fellow engineers in software design and development activities
• Job duties may change at any time due to business needs

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of Software development experience with at least 7+ years in designing/developing Android Mobile applications
• 4+ years of experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack compose and Kotlin
• 3+ years of experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences
• 3+ years of experience in influencing large organizations on best practices in Mobile Android development
• 3+ years of accessibility experience

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with modern Android development frameworks such as Jetpack Compose
• Experience working with cross-functional teams such as design, product, data teams to deliver great user experiences
• Experience in influencing large organizations on best practices in Mobile Android development
• Accessibility experience. Telemetry & observability experience beyond Firebase
• Strong desire to build in test from the start with TDD development experience. Continuous delivery in mobile, code review, static analysis, continuous integration, automation and functional testing (using Espresso)
• Experience designing retail or ecommerce applications
• Experience with authenticated session using OAuth and authenticated tokens
• Significant contributions of released Customer facing applications

EDUCATION

Bachelor’s degree or, equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

BUSINESS OVERVIEW

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.  We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day.  CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.  We proudly support and encourage people with military experience (active, veterans, reservists and National Guard) as well as military spouses to apply for CVS Health job opportunities.

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$118,450.00 - $284,280.00

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 our comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits – investing in the physical, emotional and financial wellness of our colleagues and their families to help them be the healthiest they can be. In addition to our competitive wages, our great benefits include:

• Affordable medical plan options, a 401(k) plan (including matching company contributions), and an employee stock purchase plan.

• No-cost programs for all colleagues including wellness screenings, tobacco cessation and weight management programs, confidential counseling and financial coaching.

• Benefit solutions that address the different needs and preferences of our colleagues including paid time off, flexible work schedules, family leave, dependent care resources, colleague assistance programs, tuition assistance, retiree medical access and many other benefits depending on eligibility.

For more information, visit https://jobs.cvshealth.com/us/en/benefits

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 05/30/2025

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