Sr Software Engineer

Abbott

Illinois

Remote

USD 78,000 - 156,000

Full time

5 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Health coverage (HIP PPO)

Excellent retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU educational benefit

Recognized as a great place to work

Job summary

Abbott is a global healthcare leader delivering life-changing technologies across diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded medicines. This role focuses on software for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics, requiring strong technical expertise, leadership, and problem-solving.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, test, and maintain software applications, mentoring junior engineers and partnering with stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions across Madison, WI or Redwood

Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Understanding of and significant experience with object-oriented programming.
RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework).
Experience designing and developing apps that access and/or utilize cloud-based frameworks (Azure, AWS).
Experience with Agile development tools, including JIRA and Confluence.
Experience with STARLIMS custom code.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Responsibilities

Lead design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics.
Make key technical decisions and mentor junior team members.
Communicate with stakeholders and ensure software quality with minimal supervision.
Follow design control processes and engineering best practices within a cross-functional team.
Support and comply with the Quality Management System policies.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

RESTful APIs

Relational databases

ORM technologies

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Agile tools (JIRA/Confluence)

STARLIMS

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science/CS/IS/Math/Engineering

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

STARLIMS

Maven

Kafka

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.

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

The Opportunity

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. This role requires strong technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving skills to create high-quality software solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, and ensure application reliability. You will make key technical decisions, communicate effectively with business stakeholders, mentor junior team members, and take ownership of software quality while working with minimal supervision.

As part of a cross-functional Software Engineering team, you will develop, enhance, and sustain software systems by following established design control processes and engineering best practices.

This position can be based in our Madison, WI or Redwood City, CA office location.

What You'll Work On

Demonstrate strong working knowledge, skills, and understanding of practices for complex programs and initiatives demonstrating creativity and substantial understanding of specialized techniques, processes, procedures.
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. This includes mentoring, coaching, and technical guidance for junior members of the team.
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.
Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
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, or Engineering
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, Entities 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.
Experience with STARLIMS custom code
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

Preferred Qualifications