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 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 Required Qualifications 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 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 DevOps 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 (Highschool diploma plus 4 years relevant work experience) Pay Range The typical pay range for this role is: $118,450.00 - $260,590.00 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.

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.

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: 10/01/2026 Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.