Software Engineer, Cloud

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 contribution
• 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 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 experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes? Candidates will join a platform team building visualizations for bio-wearable sensor data and calculation libraries to support a modern React, React Native, and Golang-based tech stack to improve the health and well-being of people with diabetes in over 50 countries. The core platform consists of a system that interacts with bio-wearable sensors in a large-scale distributed system responsible for processing over 500 million events daily. The candidate should have strong leadership and technical ability and a passion for software engineering to help shape the team's direction. Highly sought-after qualities include versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. The candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices.  #software

What You'll Do

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

• 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 are highly maintainable 

• Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions 

• 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 our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes more efficient 

• 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 

• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code reviews 

• Collaborate as an enaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery 

• Stay 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 field 

• Software 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 objectives 

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development 

• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level 

• Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular unit testable code 

• Understands the principles of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs 

• Understands 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 project 

• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team 

• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills 

• Experience with open-source, software development and system engineering. 

Preferred Qualifications 

• 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 

• Understanding and familiarity of Test Driven Development (TDD) 

• Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql 

• Experience working in an agile environment. 

• Practical Knowledge of Linux.