Aetna
Senior Software Development Engineer
Work at Home, Illinois, United States · Senior · Full-time
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Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~45% per draw at Level III). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
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the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
The bottom of this range ($83,430) is below the Level I prevailing wage of $84,074. An H-1B cannot be filed below the prevailing wage, so an offer at the floor of this band could not be sponsored as posted.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $100,797 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews and pair programming, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable microservices and APIs, optimizing for performance, low latency, and security.
- Champion best practices for unit testing, integration testing, and Domain Driven Design (DDD) to maintain system integrity.
- Collaborate with Product Owners and UX designers to refine requirements for high-impact interoperability initiatives.
- You will work with minimal supervision to design resilient solutions in a cloud-native environment, mentor peers, and collaborate across teams to ensure our clinical data exchange is seamless.
- Lead efforts to operationalize and standardize data exchange using FHIR, HL7, and event-driven patterns.
Requirements
- Proficiency in JVM-based technologies (Java/Kotlin),.NET, and threading/memory management concepts.
- Strong track record of working with GitHub and implementing automated SecDevOps and CI/CD workflows.
- Expertise in MongoDB performance optimization and event-driven architecture (Kafka).
- Required Qualifications Proven experience building large consumer-facing products and optimizing distributed systems in the cloud.
Nice to have
- Expertise in event sourcing or functional programming concepts.
- Our people fuel our future.
- Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
Compensation
- $83,430.00 - $222,480.00 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.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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.
- Job Summary As a Senior Software Engineer, you will take ownership of complex software workstreams and lead the development of robust, scalable services to operationalize healthcare interoperability.
- You are a champion for clean code, technical excellence, and the "design first" approach within the healthcare ecosystem.
Company info
- our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
- They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.
This listing is sourced directly from Aetna's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.