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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Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
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
- Integrates various software components or systems, ensuring seamless communication and interoperability between different parts of the digital solution.
- The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with other members of the development team and stakeholders to make high-level architectural decisions, proposes design patterns, and ensures scalability, performance, and maintainability of digital solutions.
- Participates in agile or other development methodologies, attends meetings, contributes to project planning, and helps drive the progress and success of digital projects.
- Writes code, develops software components, and implements complex functionalities according to project requirements.
- Leverages advanced programming skills to design and implement complex features, optimize performance, and ensure code efficiency.
- Writes and executes comprehensive test cases, conducts code reviews, performs debugging, and troubleshoots issues to ensure the reliability, stability, and high quality of digital solutions.
- Explores new tools, frameworks, and techniques to improve digital solutions and drive innovation within the development team.
Requirements
- Experience with major LLMs (Gemini, Claude, GPT, Mistral, LLaMA) - Prompt engineering, embeddings, RAG fundamentals - AI orchestration (LangChain.js, Semantic Kernel, or
Nice to have
- Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architecture
- Python 3.x, FastAPI or
- Tailwind CSS or equivalent
- TanStack Query, React Hook Form, Zod
- Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright
- Angular experience
- Terraform or Bicep (IaC)
- Anticipated Weekly
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.
- Additional details about available benefits are provided during the
- application process and on Benefits Moments.
Company info
- our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
- Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful.
- 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.
- Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.
This listing is sourced directly from Aetna's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.