Senior Engineering Manager API Platform

We're building a world of health around every individual - shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health, you'll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

About

The Role At CVS Health, we're looking for an experienced Senior Engineering Manager passionate about making this the place for engineers to build enterprise grade API platform that directly integrates with API gateways such as APIGEE, APIM and Kong.

We're building out the API Platform to enable teams across the company to quickly and easily deliver experiences into the hands of our customers, all at the scale of a Fortune 6 company! The API Platform will be leveraged by thousands of engineers across CVS Health building APIs used by millions of customers. We need a strong technical leader for this high performing team who can advocate for best practices, and can collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, architects and leadership to build API platform that our engineers want to use.

What We Expect of You 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 KPIsYou'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 a11yYou'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

Required Qualifications 7+ years of leadership experience, directly managing individual contributors7+ years of experience building enterprise grade applications at scale5+ years of experience with JavaScript3+ years of experience with Type Script 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

Preferred Qualifications

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 Dev Ops tools, processes, and culture (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker, GHA, etc.)Experience working on a project using mature CI/CD practices

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (High school diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)
Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is:$ - $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.

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