[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Cloud

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Abbott develops healthcare technologies, including diabetes-care products that help people manage their health. The Senior Software Engineer, Cloud designs, builds, and scales secure cloud services for a global healthcare platform, including APIs, microservices, and internal tooling for reliable access to medical data.

Responsibilities

• 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 global 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

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, other relevant field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 8 years of related experience or a Master's degree and 6+ years of related 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)
• 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 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 high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement
• The Freedom 2 Save student debt program
• FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• This position can work remotely within the U.S.

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