[Hiring] Senior Software Engineer @Abbott

Role Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the design, development, testing, and maintenance of software applications for Abbott Cancer Diagnostics. This role requires strong technical expertise, creativity, and problem-solving skills to create high-quality software solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, and ensure application reliability. You will make key technical decisions, communicate effectively with business stakeholders, mentor junior team members, and take ownership of software quality while working with minimal supervision.

As part of a cross-functional Software Engineering team, you will develop, enhance, and sustain software systems by following established design control processes and engineering best practices.

This position can be based in our Madison, WI or Redwood City, CA office location.

What You'll Work On

• Demonstrate strong working knowledge, skills, and understanding of practices for complex programs and initiatives.
• Troubleshoot issues and problems of medium complexity for major software applications.
• Initiate independent designs that impact and influence the department’s delivery and approach.
• Consistently influence and make significant decisions within a project.
• Contribute individual capabilities to the achievement of group objectives.
• Build successful internal and external partnerships with peers, SMEs, stakeholders, and decision-makers.
• Communicate clear and concise project plans/designs and status updates for a project.
• Ability to work nights and/or weekends, as needed.
• Uphold company mission and values through accountability, innovation, integrity, quality, and teamwork.
• Support and comply with the company’s Quality Management System policies and procedures.
• Maintain regular and reliable attendance.
• Ability to act with an inclusion mindset and model these behaviors for the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, or Engineering.
• Complete knowledge and full understanding of software development design and development, and relevant domain specific skills.
• Understanding of and significant experience with object-oriented programming.
• RESTful web services, Relational Databases (Postgres, SQL Server), and ORM technologies (JPA2, Hibernate, Entities Framework).
• Demonstrated experience designing and developing apps that access and or utilize cloud-based frameworks (e.g., Azure, Amazon AWS Services/SDKs, etc.).
• Agile development tools; including, but not limited to, JIRA, Confluence repository.
• Experience with STARLIMS custom code.
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in country where work will be performed on a full or part-time basis.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in the Software Engineering discipline.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7 and FHIR.
• Experience using Java as a core language.
• Experience using Spring Boot or Spring to support Microservices.
• Experience using Maven.
• Experience using Kafka or other queuing systems.

Benefits

• Career development with an international company.
• 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, Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries.
• 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.

Salary

The base pay for this position is $78,000.00 – $156,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Company Description

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.