Staff Software Developer

CoverMyMeds•Columbus, OH

About The Position

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you. Position Overview As a USP Staff Software Engineer, you will design and deliver solutions that help our healthcare system work more efficiently and effectively—helping millions of people receive their prescription medications each year. You’ll work on small, cross-functional, highly collaborative teams and operate as a senior technical leader who turns product intent into clear, actionable engineering work. This role plays a critical part in bridging product strategy and technical execution. You will help break down complex product requirements into scalable technical solutions, consult across multiple engineering teams, and ensure delivery aligns with approved USP architectures and platform standards. The role has a strong emphasis on automation and modern cloud-native development, helping advance USP’s platform capabilities while improving engineering effectiveness and long-term system health.

Requirements

10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
Strong experience designing and delivering cloud-native solutions on Azure.
Deep experience with GraphQL API design, schema evolution, and performance considerations.
Hands-on experience with event-driven architectures, including event modeling, asynchronous workflows, and messaging systems.
Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business or product problems into clear technical designs and execution plans.
Proven experience delivering AI-enabled capabilities and automated processes in production environments.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
A collaborative, consultative mindset with the ability to influence across teams.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in healthcare, regulated environments, or large-scale platform ecosystems.
Experience building shared platforms, internal frameworks, or reusable architectural patterns.
Familiarity with workflow orchestration or service choreography patterns.
Experience mentoring senior engineers and raising the overall technical bar of an organization.

Responsibilities

Translate product requirements into technical execution
Partner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders to decompose product requirements into well-defined technical work, including epics, features, service boundaries, APIs, data models, and non-functional requirements.
Lead technical discovery efforts to identify dependencies, risks, and tradeoffs early, producing clear plans that improve delivery predictability.
Create and maintain technical artifacts such as design documents, RFCs, integration contracts, and architectural diagrams that enable alignment and execution across teams.
Collaborate and consult across engineering teams
Act as a technical consultant and advisor across USP and partner engineering teams, helping drive consistency in architecture, APIs, event contracts, and shared platform approaches.
Facilitate alignment with platform, security, and architecture stakeholders, helping teams converge on sound technical decisions.
Influence outcomes through strong communication, technical credibility, and pragmatic problem-solving rather than formal authority.
Build solution technologies aligned to USP architectures
Utilize a representative modern tech stack—including Node.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL (Apollo), Azure Cloud Services, event-driven architectures and messaging platforms, and robust CI/CD and cloud-native tooling—to design, develop, and deploy scalable solutions that meet USP’s architectural standards.
Ensure all solution technologies are built with scalability, reliability, and maintainability in mind, leveraging cloud-native and AI best practices and event-driven patterns.
Apply modern CI/CD processes to streamline development and deployment, maintaining alignment with USP platform standards and promoting engineering effectiveness.
Apply event-driven architecture principles to enable asynchronous workflows, interoperability, and loose coupling.
Identify and drive opportunities to apply AI and intelligent automation to product and tech workflows, decision support, and engineering productivity.
Guide teams in designing AI-enabled capabilities that are reliable, observable, secure, and maintainable in accordance with company standards and governance processes
Quality, ownership, and operational excellence
Own the quality of the solutions you build through strong testing strategies, observability, and resilient system design that deliver on solution obligations.
Support and maintain production systems, contributing to incident resolution and continuous improvement.
Partner with platform teams to identify and deliver desired platform services and capabilities while adhering to best practices.
Contribute to a healthy agile environment through iterative delivery, clear communication, and continuous learning.