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Staff Software Engineer

AbbVie
San Francisco, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 18 Feb 2026

About the role

Company Description

At Allergan Aesthetics, an AbbVie company, we develop, manufacture, and market a portfolio of leading aesthetics brands and products. Our aesthetics portfolio includes facial injectables, body contouring, plastics, skin care, and more. Our goal is to consistently provide our customers with innovation, education, exceptional service, and a commitment to excellence, all with a personal touch. For more information, visit https://global.allerganaesthetics.com/. Follow Allergan Aesthetics on LinkedIn.

Job Description

AA Tech is a dynamic technology team within Allergan Aesthetics, proudly building and innovating the technology that powers Allē. As the leading loyalty platform, Allē empowers Allergan Aesthetics’ brands by connecting providers and consumers, driving engagement, and delivering seamless digital experiences. Join us and help shape the future of aesthetic technology while supporting growth and excellence for industry-leading brands.

As we advance our platform into its next stage, with a strong focus on reliability and repeatability, we are seeking an accomplished Staff Software Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will work on mission-critical enterprise systems such as Identity, Communications, and other foundational technologies that drive our organization’s success.

As Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work closely with the Software Engineering Manager and key stakeholders across the business to solve essential technical challenges. You’ll lead the development of core backend platforms and integrations within our collaborative cross-enterprise environment. If you’re passionate about creating impactful, reliable solutions, this is your opportunity to make a difference.

You Will

  • Champion code quality, reusability, scalability security and strategic software architecture decisions

  • Mentor software engineers utilizing code reviews, proven design patterns and your experience building large scale platform tooling

  • Collaborate with Product, Project, and Engineering Management to take small ideas or concepts and turn them into high fidelity technical game plans and achieve the products and business goals

  • Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully and the entire team is given the opportunity to take part in evaluating potential hires

  • Relate to our core values and would like to contribute to a positive working environment and culture

  • Drive the exploration and evaluation of AI-powered tools and technologies to enhance software engineering practice

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required

  • At least 10+ years as a Full Stack Software Engineer

  • Adept at drafting, validating and implementing software systems architecture using modern development and deployment technologies and can speak thoroughly to their tradeoffs.

  • Experience organizing and prioritizing tasks with Product and Project Management for a team of 4+ Engineers

  • Strong Experience with TypeScript/JavaScript, NestJS, Node.js
  • Experience working with React, and React Native (bonus)
  • Strong familiarity with data structures, algorithms and design patterns

  • Proponent of code testing and familiar with the common frameworks for unit, integration and functional tests

  • Expertise in PostgreSQL, including schema design, query optimization, and replication.
  • Deep understanding of data modeling, ETL/ELT frameworks, and event-driven architecture.
  • Experience with Kafka, Terraform, and AWS services.
  • Proven success operating and scaling production systems with high reliability and observability.

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law: ​

  • The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at thetime of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location,and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. ​

  • We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (

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