Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

The Opportunity

At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should be empowered to enjoy healthy and happy lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and software engineering experience towards an opportunity where you can improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that serves users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. The candidate should have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. Highly sought-after qualities include strong communication skills, versatility, and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

What You’ll Work On

Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go.Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platformCollaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.Design and implement highly maintainable unit testable code.Collaborate directly with InfoSec teams to design and implement secure solutions.Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team.Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components.Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team focused on realizing features through development, test, and delivery.

Required Qualification

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in an Agile environment.Full stack software development experience in React, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JSX.  Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software developmentHighly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detailDemonstrated track record of working well with others in cross-functional roles in fast-paced and changing environments, including asynchronously with distributed teams.Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews with colleagues.Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor.Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular, unit testable code.Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Preferred Qualifications

8+ years professional experience in software development.Development experience with Go.  Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices. Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks.Experience working with multilanguage support, internationalization, and/or content management systems.Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql.Experience with data visualization in D3Understanding and familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD)Practical knowledge of Linux.Understanding the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes.Experience with Grafana, Kibana, Segment, Sentry, feature flagging, and/or Mixpanel.Experience with open-source software development, current/emerging trends, and can make recommendations to help the organization innovate.

The base pay for this position is $72,700.00 – $145,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.