Software Engineer, Cloud

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.

• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
• 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 are highly maintainable
• Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
• 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 our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes more efficient
• 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
• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code reviews
• Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field
• Software development experience, ideally in Go but also in Python, Rust, Java, Spark, or C#/.NET
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
• Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
• Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular unit testable code
• Understands the principles of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
• Understands the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes
• Experience with Git for source control on a collaborative project
• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
• Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
• Experience with open-source, software development and system engineering

• 401k matching
• Health insurance
• Freedom 2 Save student debt program
• FreeU education benefit
• Tuition reimbursement

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.