**About Abbott**
Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.
**The Opportunity**
**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:
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- A company 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.
**What you´ll do**
- Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms
- Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms
- Developing high-volume, low-latency services for a integral health care platform
- 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
- Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable
- Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions
- Collaborate with both internal and external team members to to shape and define API contracts
- Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team
- Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
- Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team
- Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
- Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals
- Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components
- Collaborate as an engaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery
- Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request
- Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate
**Required Qualifications**
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres or similar.
- 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.
- Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs
- Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices
- Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization
- Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team
- Excellent written, verbal and listening communication skills
- A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
- Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level
- Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD)
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Experience working in an agile environment
- Practical Knowledge of Linux
- Exposure to Kubernetes/Docker or other container services
- Experience with open-source software development
- Experience with observability and profiling tools such as Open Telemetry or pprof
Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.