Job Description: Full Stack Developer

Employment Type: Full time Location Type: Remote (within the U.S.) Salary: Not Specified

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Position Overview

Abbott is a global healthcare leader dedicated to helping people live more fully at all stages of life. Our mission is to revolutionize how people monitor their glucose levels with new sensing technology, providing accurate data for better-informed decisions. This Full Stack Developer position is crucial for developing and enhancing our modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that serves users in over 49 countries and processes billions of tasks daily.

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About Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can engage in meaningful work, foster personal and professional growth, and maintain a healthy work-life balance. We offer:

• Career Development: Opportunities for growth within an international company.
• Health Benefits: Potential qualification for free medical coverage through our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan.
• Retirement Savings: An excellent retirement savings plan with substantial employer contributions.
• Education Benefits: Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit for bachelor's degrees.
• Recognition: A company celebrated as a great place to work globally and recognized by Fortune and other prestigious organizations for diversity and employee well-being.

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Responsibilities

As a Full Stack Developer, you will:

• Learn and improve our existing React and Go-based healthcare platforms.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of services, features, and components using React, Node, and Go.
• Design and implement highly maintainable and unit-testable code.
• Collaborate with internal and external teams to define API contracts.
• Investigate and resolve complex problems, with a focus on improving software maintainability through refactoring.
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scalability, upholding high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Build internal tooling and APIs to streamline business and engineering processes.
• Actively participate as a member of an Agile team, contributing to feature development, testing, and delivery.

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Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related engineering discipline.
• 1+ year of professional software development experience or equivalent internship experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, Vue) and backend software development (e.g., Go, Python, Java).
• Strong Computer Science fundamentals.
• High motivation to learn new software development languages to achieve goals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail and collaboration abilities.
• Familiarity with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.

Preferred:

• Experience with React and/or Go.
• 2+ years of professional experience in software development within an Agile environment.
• Practical knowledge of Linux.
• Knowledge of or experience with multilanguage support and internationalization.

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Company Information

Abbott is a global healthcare leader 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.