Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud will work with a modern tech stack on a SaaS cloud platform to improve health outcomes by developing scalable, secure cloud solutions. This role involves collaboration with internal and external partners to design and implement APIs and services that enhance the user experience.
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, Engineering Mathematics, or related field
- Minimum 6 years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including time spent in technical residency programs, or master's degree with 4+ years of related experience
- 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
Benefits
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
- An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
- Tuition reimbursement, the [Freedom 2 Save](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program and [FreeU](https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
- A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
- A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
Company Overview
Abbott is a healthcare company that produces diagnostic kits, medical devices, nutritional products, and branded generic medicines. It was founded in 1888, and is headquartered in Illinois City, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.abbott.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Abbott has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 1 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.