Abbott · 7 hours ago
Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)
United States - California - Alameda
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$100K/yr - $200K/yr
5+ years expAbbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design, build, and optimize backend systems for their digital health platform, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security while collaborating with various teams to deliver robust services.
BiotechnologyMedical DeviceHealthcareWellnessManufacturingPharmaceuticalLife ScienceEmergency MedicineGeneticsHealth CareHealth DiagnosticsMedicalNutrition
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs for realtime biosensor data processing
Implement eventdriven integrations with messaging/streaming systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ) and analytics pipelines
Collaborate with SRE to ensure observability, performance, and operational excellence across backend services
Participate in architecture and design reviews, contributing to decisions on service boundaries, data models, and communication patterns
Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency
Apply privacybydesign and security standards in line with HIPAA/GDPR compliance requirements
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code; establish and uphold engineering standards within the team
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions
Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and postmortem analysis
Qualification
Required
5-8 years of backend engineering experience with distributed, cloudnative systems
Strong skills in microservices architecture and API design (REST; familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC is a plus)
Experience with Kubernetes in production environments and familiarity with service mesh concepts
Handson proficiency with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Programming expertise in backend languages such as Java, Kotlin, Python
Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance requirements (HIPAA, GDPR, or similar)
Solid understanding of performance optimization, scalability patterns, and async data processing
Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work crossfunctionally with other engineering and product teams
Preferred
Experience integrating backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines
Exposure to API gateways, authentication/authorization patterns, and rate limiting strategies
Background in digital health, IoT, or other missioncritical platforms
Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and infrastructureascode tooling (Terraform, Helm)
Benefits
Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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
Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$6.79M2011-03-15Post Ipo Debt· $0.1M
2009-03-16Post Ipo Debt· $6.69M
1980-12-12IPO
Leadership Team
Robert Ford
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mike Peterson
Senior Vice President
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