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:
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 and improving the lives 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. #software
What You'll Do
- Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.
- Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go.
- Develop 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.
- Full stack software development experience in React, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JSX.
- 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.
- 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 working with multilanguage support, internationalization, and/or content management systems.
- 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.
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
$85,300.00 – $170,700.00
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:
WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Not specified
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
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