Senior 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 your 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 a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works on site out of our Irving TX location in the Core Diagnostics Division.

We are seeking a highly skilled and independent Senior Software Engineer to lead the design, development, and integration of software features within a complex system. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong leadership, and the ability to mentor junior engineers while collaborating across cross-functional teams.

What you will do

• Lead the design, development, and testing of software features and subsystems.

• Own engineering implementation for one or more features, including:

  • Application Programming Interface (API) design

  • Unit, integration, and performance testing strategies

  • Feature evolution, branching, integration, and deployment planning

• Define and maintain source code structure and ensure successful integration in CI environments

• Serve as the technical subject matter expert (SME) for assigned features.

• Implement hardware/interface simulation for testing purposes.

• Analyze user needs and product requirements; provide input to system engineering.

• Author feature descriptions, detailed designs, and technical specifications.

• Respond to customer complaints and on-market issues in collaboration with Global Service and other teams.

• Provide engineering effort estimates and support project management with status updates.

• Lead feature technical teams and mentor junior engineers on best practices and development procedures.

Required Qualifications:

• Moderate experience in designing and developing complex software systems.  

• At least 6+ years of relevant work experience with a bachelor’s degree in a related field or 4+ years of relevant experience with a master’s degree in a related field or Associate's Degree plus 10 years or more of relevant experience.

• Moderate knowledge in modern programming languages such as C/C++/C# or Python & agile methodologies

• Moderate level of understanding of test-driven methodologies

• Moderate level of knowledge with continuous integration & continuous development (CI/CD)

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills           

• Moderate ability to develop & design software code

• Moderate level understanding of design patterns.          

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities

  Experience in Embedded Development

  Experience in Multithreaded applications, low level control of robots.

  Expert knowledge in modern programming languages such as C/C++ and agile methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with application layer development and hardware/interface simulat