Software Engineer, Data Visualization

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. 

JOB DESCRIPTION: 

Interested in applying your wealth of technical knowledge and experience towards an opportunity in the medical field where you can improve the lives of people with diabetes?  

Candidates will join a platform team building visualizations for bio-wearable sensor data and calculation libraries to support a modern React, React Native, and Golang-based tech stack to improve the health and well-being of people with diabetes in over 50 countries. The core platform consists of a system that interacts with bio-wearable sensors in a large-scale distributed system responsible for processing over 500 million events daily. The candidate should have strong leadership and technical ability and a passion for software engineering to help shape the team's direction. Highly sought-after qualities include versatility and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members. The candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure software solutions for medical devices.   

Responsibilities  

• Design and implement data visualizations using Typescript, D3, and React that can scale across thousands of devices and be used by millions of people. 

• Develop unit-testable code that is highly maintainable. 

• Ensure performance and scale, maintaining high code quality standards and thoughtful design. 

• Support software development and architecture best practices across multiple libraries and projects. 

• Contribute to technical team strategy and roadmap. 

• Contribute to 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 interfaces and data flows.   

• Create and maintain software design documentation. 

• Support engineering teams with design and code reviews, including peer code review of Pull Request  

• Play a role in building team culture by hosting brown bag sessions on new developments in the area in which you work. 

• Provide technical training and mentorship to junior engineers. 

• Stay current with emerging trends, making recommendations as needed to help the organization innovate.  

Required Qualifications  

• Demonstrated experience developing, shipping, and maintaining complex Typescript or JavaScript-based libraries and applications 

• Strong knowledge React and/or React Native 

• Experience with D3 or similar data visualization libraries. 

• Comfortable working with SVG 

• Familiar with modern cross-platform mobile application design architecture, API design patterns, performance, and scalability 

• Outstanding interpersonal and collaboration skills 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or other relevant field or equivalent experience 

• 2 years of professional hands-on software development experience 

Preferred Qualifications  

• Experience working within an event-driven architecture. 

• Experience with Golang is a plus 

• Familiar with Cybersecurity best practices 

• Experience with working and supporting multiple development team members. 

• 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.  

• Comfortable working in an agile environment