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Abbott · 1 month ago

Staff Software Engineer, Cloud

Illinois, United States

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$99K/yr - $199K/yr

5+ years exp

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. They are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform aimed at improving the health of users with diabetes. The role involves designing and implementing services, collaborating with partners, and ensuring high standards of code quality in a scalable environment.

BiotechnologyEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsManufacturingMedicalMedical DeviceNutritionPharmaceutical

H1B Sponsor Likely

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

Qualification

GoRESTful APIsScalable architectureSQL ServerPostgresMicroservicesTest-Driven DevelopmentAgile environmentLinuxKubernetesDockerOpen TelemetryCommunication skills

Required

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)

Preferred

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

Benefits

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

FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree

Company

Abbott

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Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.

Founded in 1888

Illinois City, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.abbott.com

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