Staff Software Developer

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 OverviewAs a USP Staff Software Engineer, you will design and deliver solutions that help our healthcare system work more efficiently andeffectively-helpingmillions of people receive their prescription medications each year.You'llwork on small, cross-functional, highly collaborative teams andoperateas 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 onautomationand modern cloud-native development, helping advance USP's platform capabilities while improving engineering effectiveness and long-term system health.WhatYou'llDoTranslate product requirements into technical executionPartner closely with Product, Design, and Engineering leaders todecompose product requirementsinto well-defined technical work, including epics, features, service boundaries, APIs, data models, and non-functional requirements.Lead technical discovery efforts toidentifydependencies, risks, and tradeoffs early, producing clear plans that improve delivery predictability.Create andmaintaintechnical artifacts such as design documents, RFCs, integration contracts, and architectural diagrams that enable alignment and execution across teams.Collaborate and consult across engineering teamsAct as atechnical consultant and advisoracross 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 fluence outcomes throughstrong communication, technical credibility, and pragmatic problem-solving rather than formal authority.Build solution technologies aligned to USP architecturesUtilize 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,leveragingcloud-nativeand AIbest practices and event-driven patterns.Apply modern CI/CD processes to streamline development and deployment,maintainingalignment with USP platformstandardsandpromotingengineering effectiveness.Applyevent-driven architectureprinciples to enable asynchronous workflows, interoperability, and loose coupling.Identifyand 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 maintainablein accordance withcompany standards and governance processesQuality, ownership, and operational excellenceOwn the quality of the solutions you build through strong te

Created: 2026-03-07