The Opportunity
Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes?
Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of 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 versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
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 will have access to:
1. Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
2. A company named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
3. 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.
What you´ll do
4. Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms
5. Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
6. Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform
7. Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems
8. Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable
9. Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
10. Collaborate with both internal and external team members to to shape and define API contracts
11. Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team
12. Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
13. Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
14. Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
15. Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
16. Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components
17. Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
18. Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
19. Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate
Required Qualifications
20. Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
21. Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
22. Software development experience with Go. Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices. Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks.
23. Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
24. Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
25. Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
26. Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
27. Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
28. Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
29. A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
30. Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
31. Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
32. Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Preferred Qualifications
33. Experience working in an agile environment
34. Practical Knowledge of Linux
35. Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
36. Experience with open-source software development
37. Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof