Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

At Abbott, we are dedicated to empowering individuals with diabetes to lead healthy and fulfilling lives. We are developing life-changing products that provide accurate data for better-informed decisions, revolutionizing glucose monitoring with new sensing technology. We are seeking passionate individuals to join our purpose-driven team at our new Technology Hub in Barcelona. This role offers an opportunity to apply your technical expertise in the medical field and improve the lives of people worldwide.

What You’ll Do

• Drive innovation in health tech by developing scalable platforms that transform real-time biosensor data into meaningful insights.
• Shape the future of digital health by building solutions that empower people to take control of their metabolic health.
• Create engineering with a global impact by working on technology that reaches millions worldwide.
• Advance accessibility and compatibility by ensuring our solutions integrate seamlessly across devices and ecosystems.
• Develop and improve our existing React healthcare platforms.
• Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React and Go in the backend.
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare 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 highly maintainable, unit-testable code.
• Collaborate directly with InfoSec teams to design and implement secure solutions.
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
• Provide new ideas and insights 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 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 focused on realizing features through development, test, and delivery.

Company Information

Abbott is focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably. We are revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology. Our new Technology Hub in Barcelona will be a key location for driving innovation in health tech. You will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that serves users in over 49 countries. The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
• 8+ years of software development experience in React, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and JSX.
• Experience in backend development, preferably in Go or other programming languages.
• Highly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail.
• Demonstrated track record of working well with others in cross-functional roles in fast-paced and changing environments, including asynchronously with distributed teams.
• Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews with colleagues.
• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Strong leadership ability and a passion for software engineering.
• Highly sought-after qualities include strong communication skills, versatility, and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members.
• Experience supporting building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

Application Instructions

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