Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Abbott • Chicago, IL

2d • $86,700 - $173,300 • Remote

About The Position

Abbott’s Diabetes Care business develops sensing technology and products that help people with diabetes manage their health. The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work remotely within the United States on a SaaS cloud platform serving users in more than 49 countries. The platform processes billions of tasks each day. This role calls for strong technical leadership, a passion for software engineering, versatility, continuous learning, and the ability to empower teammates.

The engineer will help build scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical-device SaaS platform. Work includes improving and extending Go-based healthcare platforms, developing services and APIs, contributing to system architecture and operations, and collaborating with internal and external partners and teams. The role is part of an agile team and includes technical planning, design, code review, testing, and delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or another relevant field; alternatively, a master’s degree with at least 4 years of related experience.
• At least 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time in technical residency programs; alternatively, a master’s degree with 4 or more years of related experience.
• Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or similar.
• Software development experience with Go, including strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices.
• Good knowledge of Go concurrency, including goroutines, channel patterns, and the Go ecosystem, tools, and frameworks.
• Experience contributing to scalable architecture and design for existing and new systems that are highly available, maintainable, and monitorable.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
• Practical experience and understanding of developing and working with RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization.
• Comfort working asynchronously with a distributed team.
• Excellent written, verbal, and listening communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Strong computer science fundamentals and software development experience.
• Eagerness to contribute beyond current experience level.

Nice To Haves

• Practical knowledge of Linux.
• Exposure to Kubernetes, Docker, or other container services.
• Experience with open-source software development.
• Experience working with relational data stores such as SQL Server or PostgreSQL.
• Experience working with Confluence and JIRA.

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve existing Go-based healthcare platforms.
• Design and implement Go services and components for cloud-based platforms.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate APIs that let users share and use medical data in partner systems.
• Design and implement unit-testable, maintainable code.
• Collaborate with Information Security to design and implement secure solutions.
• Collaborate with internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
• Provide ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale while maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Contribute to architectural and operational decisions with the Architecture team.
• Build internal tools 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 solution-component design and workflows.
• Participate as an engaged member of an agile team, developing, testing, and delivering features.
• Take part in technical planning, design, and code reviews, including peer reviews of pull requests.
• Stay current with emerging trends and make recommendations to help the organization innovate.

Benefits

• Employees may qualify for free medical coverage in the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit, an affordable and convenient path to earning a bachelor’s degree.
• Career development opportunities with an international company.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior