Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Abbott; Illinois; Remote; USD 86,700 - 173,300; Full time

Job summary

A health technology company is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Cloud, to work remotely within the U.S. You will lead the design of scalable, secure cloud solutions for a health care SaaS platform. The role requires strong Go development experience and a background in Agile environments. Responsibilities include collaborating with partners on API integration and maintaining high system performance. The position offers a salary range of $86,700 to $173,300 based on location and experience.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment.
• Experience designing data and database models using SQL Server, Postgres, or similar technologies.
• Strong Go development experience, including concurrency and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical initiatives and design cloud solutions.
• Collaborate with partners to develop and integrate APIs.
• Maintain performance, uptime, and scalability of the system.

Skills

Go development experience

Agile environment

Database modeling

RESTful APIs knowledge

Microservices

High-performance teamwork

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SQL Server

Postgres

Kubernetes

Docker

Confluence

JIRA

Job description

About the Role

Senior Software Engineer, Cloud – remotely within the U.S., working on a modern SaaS platform that improves the health and well‑being of users in over 49 countries. You will lead technical initiatives, design scalable, highly available, and secure cloud solutions for our medical device SaaS.

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve our existing Go‑based health care platforms.
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud‑based platforms.
• Develop high‑volume, low‑latency services for a global health care platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.
• Design unit‑testable, highly maintainable code.
• Work with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions.
• Shape and define API contracts with cross‑functional teams.
• Provide ideas and insights in collaboration with the data services team.
• Maintain performance, uptime, and scalability, upholding high code quality and thoughtful design.
• Contribute to architectural and operational decisions with the Architecture team.
• Build internal tooling and APIs to streamline engineering processes.
• Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
• Create diagrams, flowcharts, and models that illustrate the design and workflow of solution components.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, delivering features through development, testing, and delivery.
• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews, including peer pull‑request reviews.
• Stay current with emerging trends and recommend innovations to help the organization evolve.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including technical residency programs.
• Experience designing data and database models using SQL Server, Postgres, or similar technologies.
• Strong Go development experience – idiomatic Go, concurrency (goroutines, channels), and best practices.
• Experience architecting highly available and maintainable systems.
• Experience implementing high‑complexity asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
• Practical knowledge of RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Ability to work well in a high‑performance team.
• Comfortable with asynchronous collaboration in a distributed environment.
• Excellent written, verbal, and listening skills.
• Willingness to learn new programming languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Strong computer science fundamentals.
• Eagerness to contribute beyond the experience level.

Preferred

• Practical Linux knowledge.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or other container services.
• Open‑source software development experience.
• Experience with relational data stores such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Experience using Confluence and JIRA.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Base pay for this position is $86,700.00 – $173,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.