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 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions. We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.
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’ll also have access to:
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Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
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Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year
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An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
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Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
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A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
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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.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This Full Stack Developer position can work out remotely within the U.S.
The Full Stack Developer will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform serving users in over 49 countries. The core platform operates within a large-scale environment, processing billions of tasks daily.
The Full Stack Developer should possess strong leadership skills and a passion for software engineering to help shape the team's direction. Highly sought-after qualities include excellent communication skills, versatility, and a continuous learning mindset.
You will contribute to building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.
What You’ll Work On
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Learn and improve our existing React and Go based health care platforms.
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Implement services, features, and components utilizing React, Node and Go.
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Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care platform
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Collaborate directly with InfoSec teams to design and implement secure solutions.
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Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
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Provide new ideas and insight in collaboration with the data services team.
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Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
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Build out internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes easier, faster, and safer.
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Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
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Create diagrams, flowcharts and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components.
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Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team focused on realizing features through development, test, and delivery.
Qualifications
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Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (or related engineering discipline) and/or equivalent training & work experience.
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1-2+ years of professional software development experience in an Agile environment, including internships.
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Full stack software development experience in any of the following: Go, React, Node, Javascript, HTML, CSS and JSX.
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Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development
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Highly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail
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Demonstrated track record of working well with others in cross-functional roles in fast-paced and changing environments, including asynchronously with distributed teams.
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Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews with colleagues.
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Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
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Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular, unit testable code.
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Experience with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
Preferred Qualifications
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Understanding and experience in Go and/or React.
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Experience working with both relational and documented oriented datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql.
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Practical knowledge of Linux.
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Understanding the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes.
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Experience with Grafana, Segment, Sentry, feature flagging, and/or Mixpanel.
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Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com
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.
Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal
The base pay for this position is
$83,500.00 – $153,300.00
In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:Product Development
DIVISION:ADC Diabetes Care
LOCATION:United States > Alameda : 2601 Harbor Bay Parkway
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:United States of America : Remote
WORK SHIFT:Standard
TRAVEL:Yes, 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day), Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)
Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf
EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf
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