Software Engineer, Fullstack

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.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Full Stack Engineer 

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 student debt program and FreeU 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 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. 

 

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and software engineering experience towards an opportunity where you can improve the lives of millions of people with diabetes? 

 

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform 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 members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. #software

 

What You’ll Work On 

 

• Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms. 

• Engage in design and implementation of services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go. 

• Design and implement highly maintainable unit testable code. 

• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts. 

• Work to investigate and resolve complex problems with an eye for improving software maintainability through refactoring. 

• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. 

• Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer. 

• Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team focused on realizing features thro