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CVS Pharmacy INC

Senior Software Development Engineer

2 Locations; CT - Hartford Posted today

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Sponsorship verdict

Sponsorship possible

One solid signal, not two. Worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.

  • Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first.
  • The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
  • No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area.
  • What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles48 certified filings for “Sr Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $142k–$174k, median $156k.
  • Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
Details and sources
Employer is on a government sponsor record
The US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
No salary bar for this route
H-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles
48 certified filings for “Sr Software Development Engineer” (Software Developers) in TX: $142k–$174k, median $156k. Most were filed at wage level IV (46%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).

US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).

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About the role

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. Position Summary The Senior Software Engineer will design, build, and ship production grade AI powered products and the software and data foundations behind them. You will work with engineering, analysts, data scientists, and product teams in a fast paced, agile environment, using AI/ML and GenAI to reimagine how healthcare is delivered. The role spans the full lifecycle of an AI solution: data pipelines, feature and vector stores, LLM powered backend services and agentic workflows, and user facing applications. You will build these on cloud native, AI ready architectures. The Senior Software Engineer is expected to have extensive knowledge of modern programming languages and frameworks, and experience designing and developing full stack and data solutions that support machine learning and generative AI use cases at production scale. Key Responsibilities • Design, build, and deploy agentic AI systems and LLM powered applications, including multi step workflows, tool use, and orchestration with frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph • Develop retrieval augmented generation (RAG) solutions end to end, including ingestion, chunking, embedding generation, vector indexing, retrieval tuning, and grounding of model responses • Design, build, and maintain the data pipelines, data models, feature stores, and vector stores that feed analytics, ML, and GenAI workloads • Build full stack applications that expose AI capabilities to users, including responsive front end interfaces (e.g., chat and copilot experiences), backend services, and RESTful/GraphQL APIs • Integrate applications with LLM APIs, relational databases, data platforms, and vector databases, and optimize data access patterns, latency, and token/inference cost • Implement MLOps/LLMOps practices, including model and prompt versioning, evaluation pipelines, monitoring for quality, drift, and hallucination, and automated release workflows • Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing (including AI evaluation and regression testing), infrastructure as code, and observability across applications, data pipelines, and AI services • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues across the stack, from data quality and model behavior to API performance and UI experience • Apply AI assisted development tools to improve engineering productivity, code quality, and delivery speed, and help establish team standards for their use • Participate in design and code reviews, mentor junior engineers, and champion engineering and AI best practices • Partner with product owners, designers, analysts, and data scientists to translate business needs into AI enabled technical solutions • Ensure solutions meet security, privacy, and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA), and apply responsible AI practices including guardrails, PHI/PII protection, auditability, and human in the loop controls Required Qualifications • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with strong experience building full stack applications and a track record of delivering AI/ML enabled solutions to production • Proficiency in at least one modern backend language (e.g., Python, Java, Node.js/TypeScript) and one modern front end framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) • Hands on experience building and deploying Agentic AI solutions in complex cloud infrastructure enviro

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