Senior Software Engineer - Search and Discovery

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

CVS Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in Elasticsearch to join our Search and Discovery team. This role is crucial in designing and scaling our eCommerce search infrastructure to deliver fast, relevant, and personalized search experiences for millions of users. You will collaborate with data scientists, product managers, and platform engineers to build intelligent, scalable, and resilient search systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable search infrastructure using Elasticsearch.
• Optimize search relevance, performance, and indexing strategies for large-scale product catalogs.
• Implement advanced search features such as autocomplete, faceted search, synonyms, and typo tolerance.
• Collaborate with data science teams to integrate ML-based ranking and personalization models into the search pipeline.
• Monitor and troubleshoot search performance, latency, and availability in production environments.
• Develop tools and dashboards for search analytics and observability.
• Stay current with the latest developments in search technologies and contribute to architectural decisions.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• 5+ years of programming experience using Java, Python, or Scala.
• 3+ years working with Elasticsearch in production.
• Deep understanding of search engine internals, indexing, query parsing, and relevance tuning.
• Experience with distributed systems, RESTful APIs, and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with eCommerce search use cases and product discovery challenges.
• Proficient in working with large-scale data and real-time systems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with vector search, semantic search, or LLM-based retrieval.
• Knowledge of Kibana, Logstash, and the Elastic Stack ecosystem.
• Exposure to MLOps and integrating ML models into production systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).

Company Information

At CVS Health, we're building a world of health around every consumer and surrounding ourselves with dedicated colleagues who are passionate about transforming health care. As the nation's leading health solutions company, we reach millions of Americans through our local presence, digital channels and more than 300,000 purpose-driven colleagues – caring for people where, when and how they choose in a way that is uniquely more connected, more convenient and more compassionate. And we do it all with heart, each and every day.

Bring your heart to CVS Health. Every one of us at CVS Health shares a single, clear purpose: Bringing our heart to every moment of your health. This purpose guides our commitment to deliver enhanced human-centric health care for a rapidly changing world. Anchored in our brand — with heart at its center — our purpose sends a personal message that how we deliver our services is just as important as what we deliver. Our Heart At Work Behaviors™ support this purpose. We want everyone who works at CVS Health to feel empowered by the role they play in transforming our culture and accelerating our ability to innovate and deliver solutions to make health care more personal, convenient and affordable.

We strive to promote and sustain a culture of diversity, inclusion and belonging every day. CVS Health is an affirmative action employer, and is an equal opportunity employer, as are the physician-owned businesses for which CVS Health provides management services. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, promotion, or any other personnel action based on race, ethnicity, color, national origin, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.