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Abbott Senior Staff Software Engineer (Go) in Alameda, California
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
Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
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.
The Opportunity
Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improving the lives of people with diabetes? Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform to support the well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily. 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. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. #software
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.
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, maintaininghigh 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.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent 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 maintaininghighly 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.
Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD).
Preferred Qualifications
10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience in an Agile environment.
Practical Knowledge of Linux
Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
Experience with open-source software development
Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof
The base pay for this position is $125,700.00 – $251,500.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
An Equal Opportunity Employer
Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.
We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.
To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com