Staff Software Engineer, Mobile and Web Platforms

Abbott Laboratories • Alameda, CA

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About The Position

As a Staff Software Engineer, Mobile and Web Platforms, you will serve as a technical leader across our mobile and web experiences. You will initially lead and support a team of iOS, Android, and React Native engineers while guiding the evolution from React Native to fully native mobile applications. Over time, you will also contribute to and influence our consumer web portals, dashboards, and Direct-to-Consumer ecommerce experiences.
This role combines hands-on development with technical leadership and offers the opportunity to grow deeper in native mobile development or continue across mobile and web platforms.

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience across mobile and or web platforms
• Strong hands-on experience with mobile development, including React Native and at least one native platform such as iOS or Android
• Solid experience building modern web applications using React and TypeScript
• Proven experience leading technical initiatives and mentoring engineers at multiple levels
• Strong understanding of mobile and web architecture, performance optimization, and platform-specific best practices
• Experience building complex, user-facing features and workflows in production environments
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence technical decisions across teams and disciplines
• Ability to balance hands-on contribution with strategic technical leadership

Nice To Haves

• Deep experience with native iOS development using Swift and or Android development using Kotlin
• Experience leading or supporting migrations from cross-platform frameworks to native platforms
• Experience building or supporting consumer web portals, dashboards, or ecommerce-related experiences
• Exposure to AI or data-driven consumer features
• Experience working in regulated or data-sensitive domains such as health or commerce
• Prior experience operating at a Staff Engineer or equivalent technical leadership level

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a talented team of iOS, Android, and React Native engineers, providing technical direction, code reviews, and architectural guidance
• Support and guide the transition from React Native to native iOS and Android applications, including defining migration strategies and best practices
• Design, build, and evolve core mobile and web features such as AI-powered food logging, AI assistants, and personalized metabolic health reports
• Lead technical initiatives from design through deployment, ensuring performance, reliability, scalability, and security across platforms
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, Data Science, and Backend teams to translate business and user needs into high-quality technical solutions
• Contribute to and review architecture decisions impacting mobile apps, web portals, and shared platform capabilities
• Help build and support web portals and dashboards, and partner with Direct-to-Consumer ecommerce teams as needed
• Establish and elevate engineering standards across mobile and web development, including testing, monitoring, and release practices
• Identify opportunities to improve developer productivity, platform consistency, and long-term maintainability
• Act as a technical partner to leadership, influencing roadmaps and platform evolution beyond your immediate team

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed