Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Summary

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform to improve health and well-being, contributing to building scalable and secure cloud solutions for medical devices.

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 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

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant fields
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs
• 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
• Practical Knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
• Experience with open-source software development
• Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Experience working with Confluence and JIRA

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant fields
• 5+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs
• 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

Nice to Haves

• Practical Knowledge of Linux
• Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
• Experience with open-source software development
• Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL
• Experience working with Confluence and JIRA

Benefits

• Free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
• 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.