Job Description
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.
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
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 contributions.
Tuition reimbursement, the [Link available when viewing the job] student debt program and [Link available when viewing the job] 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.
The Opportunity
At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, 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.
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 a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 4+ 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. The candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
What You’ll Work On
Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms.
Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
Develop 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 Requests.
Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.
Required Qualifications
Working at Abbott
At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:
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 contributions.
Tuition reimbursement, the [Link available when viewing the job] student debt program and [Link available when viewing the job] 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.
The Opportunity
At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, 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.
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 a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 4+ 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. The candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
What You’ll Work On
Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms.
Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
Develop 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 Requests.
Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.
Required Qualifications
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Staff Software Engineer, Cloud position is now open for candidates interested in the Software Developer Jobs sector. This role in Chicago offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Software Developer Jobs is a plus.