Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lifelancer is a talent-hiring platform in Life Sciences, Pharma and IT. CVS Health is seeking an experienced Senior Engineering Manager to lead the development of an enterprise-grade API platform that integrates with API gateways and enables teams across the company to deliver customer experiences efficiently.
Responsibilities
- You have Proven experience designing and operating backend APIs at scale, especially GraphQL-based platforms
- You have strong understanding of authentication and authorization patterns, including OAuth, OIDC, JWTs, and service-to-service security
- You understand business outcomes and drive technical solutions to help achieve our goals
- You'll set OKRs with your team and ensure the health of those with KPIs
- You'll partner with leaders across engineering, business, and product to build a strategy and roadmap
- You'll collaborate with other teams across CVS Digital to ensure we're building a API platform with our engineer's needs in mind
- You'll keep an eye out for new and emerging technologies that improve performance, delivery, and the developer experience
- You'll hire and retain high performing, deeply technical engineers that care about building a great engineering culture
- You'll lead a team of front-end and backend engineers as they build API platform for CVS Health engineers
- You'll actively participate in the design and architecture process for new capabilities across teams
- You're a servant leader
- You can rally your team around a shared vision, and you know what they need to be successful
- You'll provide technical leadership, direction, clarity, and vision
- You're an advocate of engineering best practices, including test coverage, clean code, security, and a11y
- You're data-driven and can articulate the value our platform provides to engineering teams and CVS
- You coach and mentor team members and contribute to building a strong engineering culture
- You care about the mental health and well-being of the engineers on your team. You create a supportive and safe environment, building trust with your engineers
- You care about the career growth of the engineers on your team, and you'll provide them with feedback and help them to set attainable goals
Skills
- 7+ years of leadership experience, directly managing individual contributors
- 7+ years of experience building enterprise grade applications at scale
- 5+ years of experience with JavaScript
- 3+ years of experience with TypeScript and modern Node.js backend development
- Experience with API gateway technologies such as Kong, Apigee, or Azure API Management
- Experience with distributed workflows, asynchronous orchestration, or job-processing systems such as Temporal or similar platforms
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)
- Experience with Node.js
- Experience building accessible web applications
- Exposure to GraphQL and RESTful web services
- Experience working with a source versioning tool, such as Git
- Experience with testing and proficiency with a testing framework (e.g., Jest, RTL, Cypress, Playwright)
- Exposure to DevOps tools, processes, and culture (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, GHA, etc.)
- Experience working on a project using mature CI/CD practices
Benefits
- This fulltime position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing of colleagues and their families.
- The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
- 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 companys equity award program.
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