Software Engineer - Cloud

$109,300 - $218,500/Yr

Abbott Laboratories - Bend, OR

Full-time - Entry Level

Bend, OR

10,001+ employees

Miscellaneous Manufacturing

About the position

At Abbott, we believe that people with diabetes should have the freedom to enjoy active lives. Our focus is on helping individuals manage their health more effectively and comfortably through innovative products that provide accurate data for better-informed decisions. We are revolutionizing glucose monitoring with our new sensing technology, and we are looking for candidates who can apply their technical knowledge and experience in the medical field to improve the lives of those with diabetes. Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that aims to enhance the health and well-being of users across more than 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks daily. We seek individuals with strong leadership abilities and a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of our team. Versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower team members are highly sought-after qualities. The candidate will support the development of scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS. In this role, you will learn and improve our existing Go-based healthcare platforms, design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms, and develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform. You will collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems. Additionally, you will design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable, work directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions, and contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team. You will also engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews, including peer code review of Pull Requests, while staying current with emerging trends and making recommendations to help the organization innovate. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the healthcare industry while working in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

• Learn and improve existing Go-based healthcare platforms.
• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform.
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate 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 shape and define API contracts.
• Provide new ideas and insights 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 Requests.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or 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 with Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Nice-to-haves

• 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.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• Free medical coverage for employees via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO.
• Excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement and the Freedom 2 Save student debt program.
• FreeU education benefit for affordable and convenient bachelor's degree paths.