Staff Engineer - Android

at  CVS Health

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 Staff Engineer - Android, will work on the team that brings CVS customers the customer-facing Flagship CVS apps. 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 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.

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 on the Playstore

EDUCATION

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

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