Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should be empowered to enjoy healthy and happy lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and software engineering experience towards an opportunity where you can improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that serves users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. The candidate should have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. Highly sought-after qualities include strong communication skills, versatility, and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

What You’ll Work On

• Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.
• Engage in design and implementation of services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go.
• Design and implement highly maintainable unit testable code.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
• Work to investigate and resolve complex problems with an eye for improving software maintainability through refactoring.
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
• Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team focused on realizing features through development, test, and delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline
• 1+ year professional software development experience or equivalent internship experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g. React, Angular, Vue) and backend software development (e.g. Go, Python, Java).
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals
• Highly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with high attention to detail and strong collaboration abilities
• Familiarity with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with React and/or Gol
• 2+ years professional experience in software development in an Agile environment.
• Practical knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of or experience with multilanguage support, internationalization, and/or content management systems.

     

The base pay for this position is

$65,900.00 – $131,900.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

     

JOB FAMILY:

Product Development

     

DIVISION:

ADC Diabetes Care

        

LOCATION:

United States > Alameda : 2801 Harbor Bay Parkway

     

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

United States of America : Remote

     

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

     

TRAVEL:

Yes, 5 % of the Time

     

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

No

     

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

     

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

     

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

     

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf