Senior Software Engineer, Cloud (Go/Golang)

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

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

At Abbott Diabetes Care (ADC), we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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. Apply your engineering expertise to produce meaningful and measurable differences in people’s lives on a global scale. Our software is provided to patients and healthcare professionals in over 25 countries worldwide.

Primary Function:

1. Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform as well as internal and external APIs to improve the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily.
2. The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team.
3. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

Major Responsibilities:

1. Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
2. Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.
3. Design and implement unit testable code that are highly maintainable.
4. Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions.
5. Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
6. Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.
7. Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
8. Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team.
9. Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
10. Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
11. Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components.
12. Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery.
13. Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request.

Requirements:

1. Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field.
2. 5 to 7 years of related experience in software development experience in Go/Golang required.
3. Proficiency in Python, Rust, Java, Spark, or C#/.NET is preferred.
4. Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development.
5. Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level.
6. Ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced changing environment.
7. Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing APIs and microservices.
8. Experienced with federation services, including SAML, Reverse Proxy, OAUTH/OIDC is mandatory.
9. Experienced working with both relational and document-oriented datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql.
10. Comfortable working remotely with a globally distributed team.
11. Able to communicate effectively in both English and a regional language preferred.
12. Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills.
13. Experience working in an agile environment.
14. Practical Knowledge of Linux.

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.