Senior Full stack Engineer

Abbott (abbottcareers2 board); Illinois; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to design and scale a modern SaaS cloud platform used globally. The role focuses on Go, React, and Node, aligning APIs and microservices for a secure, scalable medical device ecosystem. Remote work within the United States is supported, with collaboration across distributed teams.

You will mentor others, contribute to architectural decisions, and deliver highly reliable services with attention to performance and security in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of professional software development in Agile environments.
• Full stack development experience with Go, React, Node, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and JSX.
• Strong CS fundamentals and ability to learn new languages quickly.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Proven ability to work with distributed teams and conduct effective code reviews.
• Understanding of TDD and OO design will help in building modular, testable code.

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.
• Design and implement services, features, and components using React, Node and Go.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to integrate APIs for data sharing.
• Write maintainable, unit-testable code and drive quality.
• Work with InfoSec to design secure cloud solutions.
• Shape API contracts with cross-functional teams.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and build internal tooling.
• Help ensure performance, uptime and scalability of systems.

Skills

Full stack development

APIs & microservices

RESTful APIs

Cross‑functional collaboration

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Go

React

Node

JavaScript

HTML

CSS

JSX

Job description

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

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 Full stack Engineer position can work out remotely within the U.S .

We are seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to build and scale a modern SaaS cloud platform serving users in 49+ countries and processing billions of daily transactions. This role requires a strong technical leader with a passion for engineering excellence, who can guide technical direction and collaborate across teams. You will design and deliver scalable, highly available, secure, and compliant cloud solutions for a medical device platform. The ideal candidate brings strong communication skills, adaptability, and a commitment to continuous learning and mentoring others.

What You'll Work On

• Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.
• Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science (or related engineering discipline) and/or equivalent training & work experience.
• Minimum 5 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs.
• Full stack software development experience in Go, React, Node, 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 conducing 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.
• Understanding and familiarity with Test Driven Development (TDD)
• Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular, unit testable code.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex a