Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Abbott; Milpitas (CA); Remote; USD 75,000 - 151,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare leader is seeking a Software Developer to design cloud-based platforms and improve the health of diabetes users. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, experience with Go, and a passion for software engineering. This role offers competitive pay, career development, and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Free medical coverage

Retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• 2 - 4+ years of software development experience.
• Experience working asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Willingness to learn new software development languages.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement services and components for cloud-based platforms.
• Collaborate with partners to develop and integrate APIs.
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale of the systems.

Skills

Software development experience with Go

Good knowledge of concurrency in Go

Excellent communication skills

Strong Computer Science fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or relevant field

Tools

RESTful APIs

Postgres

Linux

Job description

The Position

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.
• 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 recognized as one of the best big companies to work for, and a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improve the lives of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform as well as internal and external APIs to improve the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily.

The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team.

Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower sharing and utilizing 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 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 requests.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or another relevant field, or equivalent experience.
• 2 - 4+ years’ experience.
• 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.
• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Practical knowledge of Linux.
• 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.
• Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as Postgres or similar.

Apply Now

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The base pay for this position is $75,300 – $150,700

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)

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