2 months ago
Base Salary
$114k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend microservices and APIs for real-time biosensor data processing.
- Build Java Spring Boot services with RESTful API design, dependency injection, Spring Security, and modular service architecture.
- Implement event-driven integrations using Kafka and RabbitMQ and contribute to analytics pipelines.
- Collaborate with SRE on observability, performance, operational excellence, incident response, and post-mortem analysis.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews covering service boundaries, data models, and communication patterns.
- Optimize services for low latency, high throughput, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Apply privacy-by-design and secure coding practices aligned with HIPAA and GDPR requirements.
- Write maintainable, testable code and uphold engineering standards.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- At least 9 years of experience with distributed, cloud-native systems.
- Strong microservices architecture and REST API design skills; GraphQL or gRPC familiarity is a plus.
- Production experience with Kubernetes and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Strong Java and Spring Boot production experience, including RESTful API development, dependency injection, and Spring ecosystem tooling.
- Familiarity with Kotlin or Python is a plus.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and HIPAA, GDPR, or similar compliance requirements.
- Understanding of performance optimization, scalability patterns, and asynchronous data processing.
- Experience integrating backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines is preferred.
- Exposure to API gateways, authentication and authorization patterns, and rate limiting strategies is preferred.
- Background in digital health, IoT, or mission-critical platforms is preferred.
- Familiarity with Azure, AWS, or GCP and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Helm is preferred.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-functional work with engineering and product teams.
Benefits
- Career development opportunities with an international company.
- Eligible employees may qualify for free medical coverage through the Health Investment Plan PPO in the next calendar year.
- Retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and the FreeU education benefit.
- Position is based in Alameda, California, with standard work shift and approximately 5% travel.
- Abbott offers health and wellness benefits and is an equal opportunity employer.
Tech Stack
Apache KafkaAWSAzureGoogle Cloud PlatformGraphQLgRPCHelmJavaKotlinKubernetesPythonRabbitMQSpring BootTerraform
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About Abbott
Abbott is a NYSE‑listed healthcare company that develops diagnostics, medical devices, nutrition products, and branded generic medicines for clinicians and consumers. Founded in 1888 and headquartered in Abbott Park, Illinois, it sells products in more than 160 countries, including the FreeStyle Libre continuous glucose monitoring system. Revenue comes primarily from product sales to hospitals, clinics, and retail channels.