Senior React Developer

<p>     </p><h2><b>JOB DESCRIPTION:</b></h2><p></p><p>At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should be empowered to enjoy healthy and happy 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.</p><p></p><p>Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improve the lives of people?</p><p>In our new Technology Hub in Barcelona, you will join our purpose driven team to:</p><ul><li>Drive innovation in health tech by developing scalable platforms that transform real-time biosensor data into meaningful insights.</li><li>Shape the future of digital health by building solutions that empower people to take control of their metabolic health.</li><li>Create engineering with a global impact by working on technology that reaches millions worldwide.</li><li>Advance accessibility and compatibility by ensuring our solutions integrate seamlessly across devices and ecosystems.</li></ul><p></p><p>Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service <span>(SaaS) cloud platform</span> that serves users in over 49 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 strong communication skills, versatility, and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team <span>members. Candidate</span> will support building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and <span>secure cloud solutions</span> for a medical device SaaS.</p><p><br/><b>What You’ll Work On</b></p><ul><li>Develop and improve our existing React health care platforms.</li><li>Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React</li><li>Participate in Go development for backend.</li><li>Developing <span>high-volume, low-latency services</span> for a global health care platform</li><li>Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate <span>with APIs that</span> empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.</li><li>Design and implement highly maintainable unit testable code.</li><li>Collaborate directly with InfoSec teams to design and implement secure solutions.</li><li>Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and <span>define API contracts.</span></li><li>Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.</li></ul><ul><li>Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.</li><li>Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team.</li><li>Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.</li><li>Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components.</li><li>Collaborate as an engaged member of <span>an Agile team</span> focused on realizing features through development, test, and delivery.</li></ul><p><b>Required Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or <span>related engineering</span> discipline</li><li>6+ years in software <span>development experience</span> in React, <span>Javascript, HTML, CSS and</span> JSX. </li><li>Notions in backend <span>development experience</span> in Go preferred or other programming languages.  </li><li>Highly motivated to learn new software <span>development languages</span> to meet goals and objectives.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail</li><li>Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews with colleagues.</li><li>Practical experience and understanding of working with and <span>developing RESTful</span> <span>APIs and microservices.</span></li><li>Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor.</li><li>Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular, unit testable code.</li><li>Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.</li><li>Experience with Git, <span>Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence</span></li></ul><p><br/><b>Preferred Qualifications</b></p><ul><li>Experience working with multilanguage support, <span>internationalization,</span> and/or content management systems.</li><li>Deep backend understanding and experience in React.</li><li>Experience in Go development</li><li>Experience working with both relat