Software Engineer I

Abbott Laboratories; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott Laboratories in La Jolla is seeking a Software Engineer I to learn and contribute to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software components with mentorship. You will work within cross-functional agile teams to deliver high-quality software while developing your skills and knowledge in a collaborative environment.

The role emphasizes basic software concepts, adherence to quality standards, and growth through provided mentorship and training within the Cancer Diagnostics

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or 4 years relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• Fundamental knowledge of software development and design.
• Understanding of object-oriented programming.
• RESTful web services and relational databases (PostgreSQL/SQL Server).
• Experience with cloud-based frameworks (Azure/AWS).
• Familiarity with Agile tools including JIRA and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building defined software features and fix bugs.
• Develop, test, and maintain software components with mentorship.
• Work on cross-functional agile teams to deliver high-quality software.
• Follow established design control processes and engineering practices.
• Communicate status updates to the project team.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

RESTful web services

SQL databases

Cloud services

Agile development

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years experience

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

JPA/Hibernate ORM

Azure/AWS SDKs

Job description

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our La Jolla location in the Cancer Diagnostics Division.

As an Software Engineer I, you will learn the basic concepts of all software components for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. This role will contribute to the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software components with provided mentorship and training as you develop your software development skills. While you are developing professional and technical expertise, you will gain an understanding on how to resolve routine issues and problems. This role will work collaboratively on cross-functional agile teams to deliver high quality software.

Working on our Software Engineering teams, you will contribute to the development, enhancing, and sustaining of software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. You will contribute to the design and creation of engineering specifications for building software programs based on basic knowledge of information systems and determine what development methodology to use after documenting software requirements.

Essential Duties

Include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Contribute to the building of defined software features, investigating and fixing bugs, and writing tests related to basic software components with detailed instructions for all projects and work provided by leadership.
• With general instruction, drive projects of limited scope to completion, resolving routine issue and problems within defined tasks.
• Learn basic concepts of quality standards, policies, techniques, and best practices.
• Develop basic foundational theories, skills, and practices to accomplish work assignments of limited complexity.
• Communicate status updates on individual project -based assignments to the project team.
• Establish stable working internal relationships with peers, SMEs, and decision-makers.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Bioinformatics, or Engineering; or High School Diploma/General Education Degree and 4 years of relevant experience as outlined in the essential duties in lieu of Bachelor’s Degree.
• Basic knowledge of software development and design, and relevant domain specific skills (see below).
• Understanding of object-oriented programming.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server, etc), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entity Framework, etc).
• 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, and COnfluence.
• Demonstrated ability to perform the essential duties of the position with or without accommodation.
• Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Preferred Qualifications

• Next Generation Sequencing data analysis tools and workflows.
• Familiarity with object-oriented languages, such as Python (preferred), Java, .NET, or C++.

The base pay for this position is $81,500.00 – $141,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.