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.

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience)

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