Staff Software Engineer

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:

The Opportunity:

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

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on mobile platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 50 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 versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices.  

Responsibilities 

• Design and implement software solutions for both web and mobile platforms
• Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable
• Support software development and architecture best practices across multiple projects
• Contribute to technical team strategy and roadmap
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
• Identify and solve design and technology issues within the current systems.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts 
• Ensure performance and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. 
• Create software architecture and design documentation
• Support engineering teams with design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request 
• Design team tooling, process, and play a role in building team culture
• Provide technical training and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate. 

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or other relevant field or equivalent experience 
• 10+ years of professional hands-on software development experience
• Demonstrated experience developing, shipping, and maintaining complex JavaScript based applications
• In-depth knowledge of Java, Go, C++, Swift, Kotlin
• In-depth knowledge of mobile development using React Native on Android/iOS
• In-depth understanding of modern web and/or cross-platform mobile application design architecture, API design patterns, performance and scale
• Outstanding interpersonal and collaboration skills

Preferred Qualifications 

• Familiar with Cybersecurity best practices
• Experience with working and supporting multiple development team members.
• 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 
• Familiar working in an agile environment

The base pay for this position is

$127,300.00 – $254,700.00

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

JOB FAMILY:Product Development

DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care

LOCATION:United States of America : Remote

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:United States > California : Remote

WORK SHIFT:Standard

TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

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

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