Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Abbott

23h • Remote

About The Position

Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live more fully at all stages of life, with a portfolio spanning diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines. The company employs 115,000 colleagues in over 160 countries. This role is within the diabetes care division, focused on developing life-changing products that provide accurate data for better-informed health decisions, specifically revolutionizing glucose monitoring with new sensing technology. The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud position can work remotely within the U.S. and is responsible for designing, building, and scaling secure, high-performance cloud services for a global healthcare platform. The role involves close collaboration with architecture, InfoSec, and data teams to develop APIs, microservices, and internal tooling for reliable, low-latency access to medical data. Key aspects include strong Go expertise, thoughtful system design, testable and maintainable code, and active participation in architectural decisions within an agile, distributed team.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 5-7+ years experience.
• Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
• 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.
• 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
• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
• Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
• 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
• Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in an agile environment
• Practical Knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
• Experience with open-source software development
• Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
• Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their 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 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 Request
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.

Benefits

• 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.
• health and wellness benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees