Senior Software Engineer
Abbott
Senior Software Engineer
Abbott
Makes heart devices, glucose sensors and lab tests
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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.
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 year
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
This Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work out remotely within the U.S.
This Senior Software Engineer, Cloud is responsible for designing, building, and scaling secure, high‑performance cloud services for a global healthcare platform. You’ll collaborate closely with architecture, InfoSec, and data teams to develop APIs, microservices, and internal tooling that enable reliable, low‑latency access to medical data. The position emphasizes strong Go expertise, thoughtful system design, testable and maintainable code, and active participation in architectural decisions within an agile, distributed team.
What You’ll Work On
Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms
Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
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 unit testable code that is highly maintainable
Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
Collaborate with both internal and external team members to 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, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience.
Minimum 8 years of related experience or a Master’s degree and 6+ years of related experience
Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
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.
Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
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
Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience working in an agile environment
Practical Knowledge of Linux
Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
Experience with open-source software development
Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof
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
$99,300.00 – $198,700.00In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
Abbott makes medical devices, diagnostic tests, nutrition products and branded generic drugs for hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies and patients. Its best-known product is the FreeStyle Libre, a coin-sized sensor worn on the upper arm that tracks blood sugar around the clock without routine finger pricks. Its other lines run from heart valves, pacemakers and brain stimulators to lab analyzers, rapid tests and mail-in colon cancer screening kits, and Abbott earns money by selling these products to health systems, labs, retailers and consumers. The company was founded in 1888 by Chicago physician Wallace Abbott and is based in Abbott Park, Illinois.
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