Software Engineer (Go / Golang)

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.

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field and improving the lives of people with diabetes?

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform as well as internal and external APIs to improve the health and well-being of users in over 50 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily. The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

Responsibilities

Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.

Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower 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 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 our 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.

Required Qualifications

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field.

Related experience in software development experience in Go / Golang required.

Proficiency in Python, Rust, Java, Spark, or C# / .NET is preferred.

A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.

Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development.

Communicate effectively in both English and Spanish.

Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level.

Ability to work effectively within a team in a fast-paced changing environment.

Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing APIs and microservices.

Experience with federation services, including SAML, Reverse Proxy, OAUTH / OIDC is mandatory.

Experience working with both relational and document-oriented datastores such as SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in an agile environment.

Practical Knowledge of Linux – not essential.

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