What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Developer position at McKesson?
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.
As a Senior Software Developer within CoverMyMeds Specialty Access and Affordability, you'll design, build, and deliver software that helps patients get access to the medications they need. Our team builds the platforms and services that power prior authorization, affordability, and patient enrollment workflows, with direct and measurable impact on whether patients can start and stay on therapy.
You'll operate as a senior individual contributor, owning meaningful technical work end-to-end and partnering closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions. You'll have technical ownership of features and services within your domain, drive day-to-day delivery, and help raise the bar for engineering quality across the team.
What You'll Do
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role, presently or in the future.
Minimum Qualifications
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7 years of relevant experience.
Critical Skills
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$131,000 - $218,300
McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!
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.
As a Senior Software Developer within CoverMyMeds Specialty Access and Affordability, you'll design, build, and deliver software that helps patients get access to the medications they need. Our team builds the platforms and services that power prior authorization, affordability, and patient enrollment workflows, with direct and measurable impact on whether patients can start and stay on therapy.
You'll operate as a senior individual contributor, owning meaningful technical work end-to-end and partnering closely with product, design, and other engineering teams to deliver scalable, cloud-native solutions. You'll have technical ownership of features and services within your domain, drive day-to-day delivery, and help raise the bar for engineering quality across the team.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop, test, and deploy features and services that support Specialty Access and Affordability products and platform capabilities, including our FHIR-based data platform.
- Own delivery of complex features end-to-end, from requirements through production, including implementation, testing, and operational readiness.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and help shape the engineering standards we hold ourselves to.
- Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering teammates to translate product needs into technical solutions, surfacing risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs along the way.
- Contribute to design discussions, code reviews, and sprint ceremonies with constructive feedback and ideas.
- Share knowledge through code reviews, pairing, and informal mentorship of teammates.
- Improve code quality, performance, observability, and operational stability, and help us continue reducing deployment friction across our pipelines.
- Participate in on-call or support rotations to maintain system reliability.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role, presently or in the future.
Minimum Qualifications
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7 years of relevant experience.
Critical Skills
- 5–7 years of professional software development experience, or equivalent practical experience.
- Strong (5 years) proficiency in modern backend and/or full-stack development using TypeScript and JavaScript.
- Hands-on experience (5 years) with several of the following: Node.js, React, GraphQL, and event-driven systems (Kafka or similar).
- Production experience on Azure, or strong experience on a comparable major cloud with willingness to ramp up.
- Experience building and integrating APIs across distributed systems.
- Solid command of software engineering fundamentals: testing, version control, CI/CD, and observability.
- Ability to drive your work independently while collaborating effectively within a team.
- Experience with FHIR data models, healthcare integrations, or EHR-adjacent systems (Aidbox a plus).
- Familiarity with containerization and cloud-native deployment patterns.
- Experience contributing to systems that operate at scale or support business-critical workflows.
- Interest in DORA metrics and continuous improvement of deployment and delivery practices.
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$131,000 - $218,300
McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!
Salary : $131,000 - $218,300