Software Engineer II
Abbott Laboratories
Summary
The Software Engineer II is a hands-on builder within the product-led Software Engineering team in Abbott's cancer diagnostics division, focused on Digital Engineering and Integrations. This team owns the customer-facing portals that serve patients, providers, and payers, along with the integrations that power them. You will design, build, and run secure, reliable, full-stack services on AWS, working in a squad that owns its product end to end.
Job description
The Opportunity
The Software Engineer II is a hands-on builder within the product-led Software Engineering team in Abbott's cancer diagnostics division, focused on Digital Engineering and Integrations. This team owns the customer-facing portals that serve patients, providers, and payers, along with the integrations that power them. You will design, build, and run secure, reliable, full-stack services on AWS, working in a squad that owns its product end to end.
What You'll Work On
- Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, services, and event-driven integrations using Java, Spring Boot, and messaging platforms such as Kafka, with attention to versioning, error handling, and idempotency.
- Contribute to front-end work, building responsive, accessible user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML, and CSS.
- Treat performance, availability, observability, security, and compliance requirements as first-class parts of every design, not afterthoughts.
- Write and automate unit and integration tests that give the team confidence to ship often.
- Deploy and operate services on AWS using containers and infrastructure as code, supported by GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Contribute to design discussions and code reviews and help raise the quality bar across the squad.
- Work within their team in an Agile environment to deliver features that serve our portal users.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of related software engineering experience
- Experience building and supporting distributed microservices in production using Java or a comparable object-oriented language
- Experience with a framework such as Spring Boot
- Experience with RESTful or GraphQL APIs, including event-driven integrations with messaging platforms such as Kafka
- Experience building and running services on a major cloud platform such as AWS or Azure
- Experience with SQL and relational database skills
- Experience writing automated unit and integration tests
- Experience with Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting issues across application services, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure
- Strong written, verbal, and listening communication skills
- Ability to collaborate within their team and independently own technical deliverables
Benefits
- Free Medical Coverage
- Retirement Savings Plan
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Student Debt Program
- FreeU Education Benefit
- Career Development
Company overview
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare technology leader founded in 1888 and headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. As an international medtech and pharmaceutical company, Abbott operates in approximately 160 countries worldwide with a workforce of over 115,000 employees. The company is organized into four major business segments: Medical Devices (48% of revenue), Diagnostics (20%), Nutritional Products (19%), and Established Pharmaceutical Products (12%). Abbott's medical devices portfolio includes revolutionary technologies such as the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system for diabetes management, cardiovascular devices like the MitraClip and TriClip for heart valve repair, and neuromodulation systems for chronic pain management. The company's diagnostics division pioneered breakthrough tests including the first licensed HIV blood test in 1985. With a rich history spanning over 135 years, Abbott has consistently been recognized as one of Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies since 1984 and continues to drive innovation in healthcare technology to help people live healthier, fuller lives.