Staff Software Engineer, Partners 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.

The Opportunity

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 mobile platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 50 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 software solutions for medical devices.  

What you will do:

• Design and implement software solutions for both web and mobile platforms that enable and contribute to the success of our Partners (External)
• Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable.
• Support software development and architecture best practices across multiple projects
• Contribute to technical team strategy and roadmap
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
• Identify and solve design and technology issues within the current systems.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts 
• Ensure performance and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. 
• Create software architecture and design documentation
• Communicate strategy and technical topics in a simple and straight-forward manner
• Support engineering teams with design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request 
• Design team tooling, process, and play a role in building team culture
• Provide technical training and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or other relevant field or equivalent experience 
• 10+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
• Demonstrated experience developing, shipping, and maintaining complex software applications
• In-depth knowledge of C++/Java, JavaScript, Typescript and React/Native
• Experience with building SDK’s
• In-depth understanding of modern web and/or cross-platform mobile application design architecture, API design patterns, performance and scale
• Outstanding interpersonal and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications 

• Familiar with Cybersecurity best practices
• Familiar with Interoperability standards, HL7, FHIR, etc
• Experience with working and supporting multiple development team members.
• 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 
• Familiar working in an agile environments

The base pay for this position is $109,300.00 – $218,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.