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.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
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 Go and React based health care platforms.
- Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing Go, React and Node.
- 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 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 Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in an Agile environment.
- 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.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
- Highly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail
- Demonstrated 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.
- Software development experience in React, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JSX.
- Experience working with multilanguage support, internationalization, and/or content management systems.
- Deep backend understanding and experience in React.
- Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql.
- Experience with data visualization in D3
- Understanding 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.
JOB FAMILY:Product Development
DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:United States of America : Remote
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:United States > Alameda : 2801 Harbor Bay Parkway, United States > Bend : 1000 SW Emkay Drive, United States > Chicago : Willis Tower Building 233 S Wacker Dr., United States > Milpitas : 1820 McCarthy Blvd, United States > Orlando : University Park Building
WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
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What We Do
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 109,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
