Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Applications

About Abbott

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.

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:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• 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.
• 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 Senior Software Engineer, Mobile Applications position can work remotely within the U.S.

Staff Software Engineer, Mobile Applications will work with a modern React Native and Golang-based tech stack on a mobile platform that strives to improve the health and well-being of users in over 50 countries. The core mobile platform consists of a system which interacts with a bio wearable sensor that is part of a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day. The candidate should have both strong leadership and technical ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team. Highly sought-after qualities include versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices.

What You’ll Work On

• Design and implement software solutions for a robust mobile platform.
• Design and implement unit testable code that is highly maintainable.
• Support software development and architecture best practices across multiple projects.
• Contribute to technical team strategy and roadmap.
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team, product owners and other technical teams.
• Identify and solve design and technology issues within the current systems.
• Collaborate with both internal and external application and platform teams to shape and define API contracts.
• Ensure performance and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
• Create software architecture and design documentation.
• Support engineering teams with design, and code reviews including peer code.
• Design team tooling, process, and play a role in building team culture.
• Provide technical training and mentorship to junior engineers.
• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional hands-on software development experience.
• Demonstrated experience developing, shipping, and maintaining complex mobile applications.
• Expert-level knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, and React Native.
• Hands-on experience with Swift, Kotlin