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Summary:
- Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.
- Abbott’s portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic medicines.
- Abbott has 114,000 colleagues serving people in more than 160 countries.
Responsibilities:
- Learn and improve our existing Go-based health care platforms.
- Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms.
- Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global health care 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 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 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.
- Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code review of Pull Request.
- Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other relevant field, or equivalent experience.
- Familiarity with data design and database technologies such as SQL Server, Postgres, or similar.
- Software development experience with Go. Strong knowledge of idiomatic Go and best practices.
- Good knowledge of concurrency in Go – goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools and frameworks.
- Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor.
- Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
- Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices.
- Ability to work well with a team in a high-performance organization.
- Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team.
- Excellent written, verbal, and listening communication skills.
- A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
- Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development.
- Eagerness to contribute beyond experience level.
- Understanding and familiarity of Test-Driven Development (TDD).
