Software Development Manager

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:

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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.

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 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

This Software Development Manager position can work out remotely within the U.S.

The Software Development Manager will work with a modern tech stack on mobile platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 50 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.

The Software Development Manager 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. You will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices.  

What You’ll Work On

• Lead and manage a group of engineers through mentorship and technical leadership
• Lead engineering teams with design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
• Collaborate on the design and implementation of software solutions for both web, cloud and mobile platforms
• Support software development and architecture best practices across multiple projects
• Lead significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
• Identify and solve design and technology issues within the current systems.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts 
• Ensure performance and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design. 
• Help create software architecture and design documentation
• Help design team tooling, process, and play a role in building team culture
• Provide technical training and mentorship to individual contributors
• Help lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and other Agile ceremonies to ensure team alignment and progress
• Lead and implement technical team strategy
• Track progress, identifying potential risks, and ensuring timely and accurate delivery of items on the roadmap.
• Work with product owners, other team members, and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
• Tracking team performance, identifying areas for improvement, and implementing best practices.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate. 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in Compute