Senior Cloud Software Engineer

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:

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 Senior Cloud Software Engineer position works onsite in our Sylmar, CA location in the Cardiac Rhythm Management Division. As a global leader in Cardiac Rhythm Technologies, we focus on innovative technologies that can improve the way doctors treat people with heart arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats.

 

Cloud Software Engineer will contribute to the design and development of cloud service applications under a disciplined product development process that meets FDA and other regulatory agencies requirements. Work on software design, coding, and validating software. Support verification and validation testing, unit testing, and ensuring that all product development conforms to design specifications and coding standards for medical devices. Exercise judgment in coding following the software designs and conducting investigation activities following defined methods. Develop productive internal/external working relationships.

What You’ll Work On

• Architect, Design, Develop, and Test highly scalable web and server applications using Angular and other JavaScript frameworks.
• Build distributed cloud based microservices that can efficiently scale with minimal effort.
• Assist in the preparation of software design specifications for implementation of software designs per Abbott design development process.
• Assist in the evaluation of selected designs through testing and full documentation of the results.
• Work on problems of moderate to complex scope where analysis of situations or data requires evaluation of identifiable factors.
• Exercise judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.
• Implement high quality, secure and robust applications with optimal performance suitable for cloud deployment of applications.
• Work collaboratively with cross functional teams in all phases of lifecycle of the product development.
• Should be able to evaluate and suggest new tools and technologies for overall improvement of the product.
• Work independently and capable of leading product releases and mentoring junior team members.
• Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments.  Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in relevant engineering discipline, computer science, related engineering field.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in software development using a variety of programming methods.
• Proficient in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and SQL programming.
• Experience with server-side technologies: Spring, JPA, JMS and Web Service (SOAP/RESTful).

Preferred Quali