Staff Software Engineer, Cloud at Abbott Laboratories

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.

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contributio
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists. 

The Opportunity

At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active 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 experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of 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 versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

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What You’ll Work On

• Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms

• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms

• Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform

• Collaborate 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 unit testable code that is highly maintainable

• Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions

• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to 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, realizing features through development, test, and delivery

• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request

• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience.

• 5-7+ years experience.

• Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.

• Software 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 contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor

• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs

• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices

• Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization

• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team

• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills

• A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development

• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level

• Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an agile environment

• Practical Knowledge of Linux

• Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services

• Experience with open-source software development

• Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof

Apply Now

* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:  www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 – $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.