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.

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.Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar yearAn excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contributionTuition 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

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improving the lives of people with diabetes?  

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform as well as internal and external APIs to improve the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily.   The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. #software

What You'll Do

Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platformsCollaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systemsDesign and implement unit testable code that are highly maintainableCollaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutionsProvide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services teamEnsure 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 teamBuild out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes more efficientImplement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goalsCreate diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution componentsEngage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code reviewsCollaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and deliveryStay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant fieldSoftware development experience, ideally in Go but also in Python, Rust, Java, Spark, or C#/.NET.  A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectivesStrong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software developmentEagerness to contribute beyond experience levelUnderstands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular unit testable codeUnderstands the principles of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobsUnderstands the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes.Experience with Git for source control on a collaborative projectComfortable working asynchronously with a distributed teamExcellent written, verbal and listening communication skillsExperience with open-source, software development and system engineering.

Preferred Qualifications

Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservicesExperience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitorUnderstanding and familiarity of Test Driven Development (TDD)Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySqlExperience working in an agile environment.Practical Knowledge of Linux.   

Apply Now

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.

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The base pay for this position is $60,000.00 – $120,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.