Abbott Hiring for IT Software Engineer at Chicago, IL, United States Full Time

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 .

Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO

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 position works out of our Illinois locations in the Business Technology Services.

We are looking for a software engineer for digital technology solutions. The engineer ensures the solution design outlined is delivered in line with best practices, embedding our standards of quality, reusability, scalability and configurability.

The engineer will execute true end-to-end development and testing of software products in an agile lifecycle. Partnering with key technical and business stakeholders, the agile developer will help refine the product vision, estimate and design a solution, create, purchase, or customize the requisite hardware and software to create the solution, ensure the quality of the final product through manual and automated tests, and support the new software as it is moved to production.

The engineer will guide and coach the developers (internal and external) on standards, code quality and continuous improvement opportunities.

You have worked on medium scale projects and want to take your impact to the global scale. You can work across multi-functional teams and multiple applications using the best each to meet business needs.

What You’ll Work On

Writes consistently great code requiring no syntax / convention feedback.

Able to size development effort with high degree of accuracy.

Actively involved in continuous code / system improvement activities driving fault tolerance of end to end processes

Implement extensible interface contracts to provide scalable and reliable micro-services

Lead software delivery by applying standards and working with cross-functional teams and technology stacks.

Design and implement full stack solutions (NodeJs / React / Java stack, Kafka, MongoDB, AWS)

Participate actively in the software release process, from design to implementation and production.

Enhance delivery systems with continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI / CD).

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE YOU’LL BRING

Required Qualifications

BSc. in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline

5+ years of software engineering experience in building / implementing high performance and scalable server-side applications.

Hands on experience on implementing full stack solutions.

Strong experience on modern technologies ( i.e. nodejs, Python, Java, JavaScript, React, / Angular / Vue HTML5, CSS, Sass)

Applied experience on Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI / CD) and best practices.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in the design, development, and deployment of highly scalable APIs on major cloud platforms

Hands on experience working with Lean / Agile development methodologies (XP preferred)

Hands on experience with Atlassian suite (i.e. Jira, Confluence) and source code management tools (i.e. Git, BitBucket, Harness)

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Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives : www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com / Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $80,700.00 $161,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email [email protected]