Cloud Software Engineer Jobs in Illinois

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Position Summary

Health100 is an AI‑native health technology platform that unifies pharmacies, providers, insurers, PBMs, and digital health solutions into a single, consumer‑focused ecosystem. Powered by Google Cloud AI, we’re reimagining personalized and connected health experiences.

As a Senior Software Engineer for Health100, you will play a crucial role within a collaborative team — designing, developing, and maintaining backend services and APIs while ensuring releases are well-coordinated, fully prepared, and successfully deployed to production. The ideal candidate brings strong technical expertise in modern backend development, excellent problem-solving skills, and a proactive approach to production monitoring, issue triage, and cross-team coordination. This position is critical in maintaining high engineering standards, ensuring smooth release cycles, and driving operational excellence across the development lifecycle.

• This role can be based anywhere in the US; hybrid or remote with preference for candidates to work out of our corporate headquarters in Woonsocket, RI.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with technical leaders and the open-source community to contribute to technical designs, frameworks, roadmap definition, and requirements-gathering.

• Provide domain knowledge and engineering insight to guide early designs, accelerate project decision-making, and maintain close oversight of technical execution.

• Encourage and maintain engineering excellence within the team to build reliable distributed systems that our customers can build their business on.

• Plot and execute on the path from prototype to production for features.

• Collaborate with business, product, architecture, security, digital, and engineering teams to deliver innovative solutions that address customer needs, solve complex challenges, and drive continuous improvement.

• Foster a collaborative and inclusive team culture by demonstrating ownership, accountability, and enthusiasm while contributing to automation initiatives and supporting high-performing remote teams.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of Java development experience utilizing Spring Boot and/or Spring MVC with ability to work in Cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure and end-to-end DevOps pipeline.

• 3+ experience developing and maintaining RESTful APIs, microservices, and backend systems.

• Strong skills in relational and/or NoSQL databases.

• Strong foundation in software engineering: problem solving, data structures, algorithms, patterns, concurrency, agile methodologies and sprint planning best practices.

• Experience coordinating release cycles, preparing release notes, and ensuring all development tasks and dependencies are tracked.

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare domain experience-e.g. PBM/NCPDP/HIPAA.

• Prior experience in a hybrid role involving both software development and release/operations management.

• Experience with an Application and Performance Monitoring platform.

• Knowledge of message queues and event-driven architectures (Pub/Sub, Kafka, etc.).

• Experience with SRE or DevOps practices, including incident management and root-cause analysis.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, related field, or equivalent experience (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience).

Anticipated Weekly Hours

40

Time Type

Full time

Pay Range

The typical pay range for this role is:

$92,700.00 - $203,940.00

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.

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.

Great benefits for great people

We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.

This full‑time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well‑being 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.

Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.

We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 09/29/2026

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