Backend Capability Product Specialist
Job Title: Backend Capability Product Specialist
Job Location: Work at Home, Rhode Island, United States
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full time
Job Seniority Level:
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
CVS Health is looking for hands-on, passionate people who want to join a high energy and growing team to make a difference in customers’ lives and who want to be on the forefront of digital innovation that aims to reinvent what a pharmacy and a health care company can be in the digital world. Currently, we are seeking a technically fluent and strategically minded Backend Capability Product Specialist to own the backend platform, API ecosystem, and third-party integration layer of our SaaS product suite. This role sits at the intersection of engineering, business strategy, and market intelligence — driving the development of scalable, interoperable systems that power both internal capabilities and external partner integrations.
The ideal candidate combines deep SaaS platform expertise with a data-driven approach to prioritization — balancing market trends, ROI potential, and customer needs to build a backend that is a competitive differentiator. Experience with Healthcare technology, EHR/EMR systems, and health data interoperability standards is highly valued.
Expectations For The Role
Backend Platform & API Strategy
- Own the product roadmap for backend systems, APIs, and data platform capabilities
- Define API design standards, versioning strategies, and developer experience (DX) principles
- Drive the vision for a scalable, event-driven microservices architecture in collaboration with engineering leads
- Establish and govern API governance frameworks including authentication, rate limiting, and SLA commitments
Product Integrations & Ecosystem
- Lead strategy and execution for third-party integrations, partner APIs, and marketplace ecosystem development
- Identify and prioritize integration opportunities with EHR/EMR platforms (Epic, Cerner, athenahealth, etc.), payer systems, and health data networks
- Collaborate with technical architects to evaluate and adopt interoperability standards:
- HL7 FHIR R4 / R4B
- SMART on FHIR
- Direct Messaging / TEFCA / QHIN participation
- Manage the integration roadmap from vendor evaluation through production go-live and ongoing lifecycle management
Market Intelligence & Capability Vision
- Monitor and synthesize healthcare technology market trends, regulatory shifts (ONC, CMS), and competitive landscape to inform the backend roadmap
- Evaluate emerging capabilities — including commercial AI model APIs (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT), generative AI integration, and real-time data streaming — and translate them into business-ready features
- Build ROI-based business cases for platform investments, with quantified impact projections tied to revenue, retention, or efficiency
- Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and pre-sales teams to understand unmet integration and API needs from the market
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Serve as the primary product owner embedded with backend engineering squads — running sprint planning, backlog grooming, and stakeholder reviews
- Translate complex technical requirements into clear, actionable product specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Act as the internal API product evangelist, enabling internal teams to leverage platform capabilities effectively
- Define and track platform KPIs: API adoption, uptime, latency, integration success rates, and developer sati