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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
What
You'll
Do
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.
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building and operating production systems.
About You
Required Qualifications
- 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.
Preferred Qualifications
- 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.
What Success Looks Like
- Product requirements consistently translate into clear, actionable technical plans with fewer surprises.
- Engineering teams deliver solutions that align with USP architectural standards while moving quickly and safely.
- AI-enabled capabilities are introduced thoughtfully, improving product outcomes and/or engineering effectiveness.
- Systems are modular, scalable, and easier to evolve as USP continues to grow.
We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations.
In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$148,700 - $247,900
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