Senior Software Engineer – Cancer Diagnostics (Remote)

Abbott; Alton (IL); Remote; USD 78,000 - 156,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP PPO medical coverage

Retirement plan with high employer 贡献

Tuition reimbursement and FreeU

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead design, development, and testing of software for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. You will mentor juniors, resolve complex issues, and influence project directions. Offices are in Madison, WI or Redwood City, CA with potential remote options.

The role requires strong OO programming, REST APIs, cloud experience, and full‑stack skills across Java, C++, Python, and SQL. Join a team delivering critical diagnostic software with rigorous quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties.
• Complete knowledge and full understanding of software development design and development, and relevant domain‑specific skills.
• Understanding of and significant experience with object‑oriented programming.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entity Framework).
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing apps that access and/or utilize cloud‑based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).
• Agile development tools, including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
• C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, SQL, PL/SQL, .NET, Google Web Toolkit.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate strong working knowledge, skills, and understanding of practices for complex programs and initiatives demonstrating creativity and substantial understanding of specialized techniques, processes.
• Troubleshoot issues and problems of medium complexity for major software applications; break down complex tasks, make reasonable decisions, investigate and fix bugs, and operate independently.
• Initiate independent designs that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach.
• Lead reviewing design alternatives, problems, and solutions with an eye on limiting the need for later problem solving.
• Consistently influence and make significant decisions within a project, demonstrating good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions based in a solid understanding of business strategy and best practices with minimal instructions for difficult or unpredictable situations.
• Contribute individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives, and work effectively with others in a group setting.
• Build successful internal and external partnerships with peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers.
• Communicate clear and concise project plans/designs and status updates for a project.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.

Skills

Object‑oriented programming

RESTful services

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)

Java

C++

Python

SQL

Jira/Confluence

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in CS/Engineering

4 years of relevant experience

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Spring Boot

Maven

Kafka

Job description

Abbott is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to lead design, development, and testing of software for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. You will mentor juniors, resolve complex issues, and influence project directions. Offices are in Madison, WI or Redwood City, CA with potential remote options.

The role requires strong OO programming, REST APIs, cloud experience, and full‑stack skills across Java, C++, Python, and SQL. Join a team delivering critical diagnostic software with rigorous quality standards.