Principal Engineer - Mobile Apps

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.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Principal Engineer - Mobile Apps, will work on the team that brings CVS customers their “Shopping & Health Super-power” – the customer-facing Flagship CVS Shopping and Health apps. As a Principal 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 Apps (aka Retail Apps) 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 mobile 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

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

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 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 / iOS 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 on the Playstore or iStore

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:

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. 
 
In addition to your compensation, enjoy the rewards of an organization that puts our heart into caring for our colleagues and our communities.  The Company offers a full range of medical, dental, and vision benefits.  Eligible employees may enroll in the Company’s 401(k) retirement savings plan, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan is also available for eligible employees.  The Company provides a fully-paid term life insurance plan to eligible employees, and short-term and long term disability benefits. CVS Health also offers numerous well-being programs, education assistance, free development courses, a CVS store discount, and discount programs with participating partners.  As for time off, Company employees enjoy Paid Time Off (“PTO”) or vacation pay, as well as paid holidays throughout the calendar year. Number of paid holidays, sick time and other time off are provided consistent with relevant state law and Company policies. 
 
For more detailed information on available benefits, please visit Benefits | CVS Health

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