Software Engineer II

Abbott; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 61,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

Abbott is seeking a hands-on Software Engineer II in the Cancer Diagnostics division to design, build, and run secure, full‑stack services on AWS. You’ll work in a squad that owns its product end to end, contributing to customer‑facing portals for patients, providers, and payers.

In this role you will develop RESTful and GraphQL APIs with Java/Spring Boot, front‑end work with Angular, and ensure performance, security, and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field, or equivalent experience, with 5+ years in software engineering.
• Experience building distributed microservices in production using Java/Spring Boot and REST/GraphQL.
• Experience deploying services on AWS or Azure.
• SQL and relational database skills.
• Experience with automated tests, Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Troubleshooting across apps, APIs, DBs, and cloud infra.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, services, and event-driven integrations using Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
• Contribute to front-end work, building responsive UI with Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML and CSS.
• Ensure performance, availability, observability, security, and compliance in design.
• Write and automate unit and integration tests.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS using containers and infrastructure as code, with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in design discussions and code reviews; raise quality.
• Work in an Agile team to deliver portal features.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

REST APIs

GraphQL

Kafka

AWS

SQL

CI/CD

Testing

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/related field

Tools

Git

Docker

CI/CD

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Within the Cancer Diagnostics division, we are cancer fighters, united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

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

The Software Engineer II is a hands-on builder within the product-led Software Engineering team in Abbott’s cancer diagnostics division, focused on Digital Engineering and Integrations. This team owns the customer-facing portals that serve patients, providers, and payers, along with the integrations that power them. You will design, build, and run secure, reliable, full-stack services on AWS, working in a squad that owns its product end to end. You will write high-quality code, strengthen how we build, and help the engineers around you grow.

We are looking for someone who builds with the full lifecycle in mind : thoughtful design, solid testing, and real responsibility for how services run once they are live. The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator, shares what they know and learn generously, and is able to work towards solid solutions.

What You’ll Work On

• Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, services, and event-driven integrations using Java, Spring Boot, and messaging platforms such as Kafka, with attention to versioning, error handling, and idempotency.
• Contribute to front-end work, building responsive, accessible user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML, and CSS.
• Treat performance, availability, observability, security, and compliance requirements as first-class parts of every design, not afterthoughts.
• Write and automate unit and integration tests that give the team confidence to ship often.
• Deploy and operate services on AWS using containers and infrastructure as code, supported by GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to design discussions and code reviews and help raise the quality bar across the squad.
• Work within their team in an Agile environment to deliver features that serve our portal users.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus 5+ years of related software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated experience building and supporting distributed microservices in production using Java or a comparable object-oriented language, a framework such as Spring Boot, and RESTful or GraphQL APIs, including event-driven integrations with messaging platforms such as Kafka.
• Experience building and running services on a major cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with SQL and relational database skills.
• Experience writing automated unit and integration tests, and working with Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience troubleshooting issues across application services, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong written, verbal, and listening communication skills, with the ability to collaborate within their team and independently own technical deliverables.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building user interfaces with Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS, with a solid grounding in HTML, CSS, and accessibility basics, and with state management (NgRx) or micro-frontend approaches.
• Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent solutions.
• Experience with AWS services such as EKS/ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and IAM.
• Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases.
• Knowledge of securing APIs using Spring Security and OAuth 2/OIDC.
• Willingness to work in a regulated industry (such as healthcare or life sciences).

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

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.