3 days ago
Base Salary
$114k - $228k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end architecture vision and roadmap for Lingo’s cloud SaaS platform.
- Define architecture principles, reference designs, and standards for services, APIs, data, and infrastructure.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, document architectural decisions, and manage technical debt and trade-offs.
- Assess scalability, reliability, and cost risks and drive platform evolution plans.
- Architect mobile-to-cloud services, device data synchronization, offline handling, and secure data uploads.
- Design high-throughput ingestion pipelines for continuous biosensor and user-generated data.
- Define backend-for-frontend patterns, API contracts, and versioning strategies.
- Design storage architecture, data models, retention, partitioning, and lifecycle policies for biosensor data, user profiles, and derived insights.
- Architect secure and performant APIs with authentication, authorization, and rate-limiting standards.
- Partner with Data Engineering on analytics data flows, lineage, and governance.
- Prototype solutions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with engineering, product, mobile, data, and AI teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- 10+ years of software engineering experience, including 5+ years in an architect, principal, or technical lead role for large-scale cloud or SaaS platforms.
- Proven experience architecting cloud-native backends serving mobile applications at consumer scale.
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architectures, and REST, GraphQL, or gRPC API design.
- Strong production-scale experience with Azure cloud services or equivalent, including App Service, AKS, Azure Functions, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Event Hubs, and API Management.
- Experience designing data storage and processing for high-volume or time-series data.
- Experience integrating and operating ML models or AI services in production.
- Experience designing systems handling sensitive data under HIPAA, PHI, GDPR, or similar privacy frameworks.
- Hands-on prototyping and code-review ability with strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Preferred experience in digital health, wearables, IoT, fitness, or consumer health technology.
- Preferred familiarity with FHIR, HL7, Apple HealthKit, Google Health Connect, consent management, privacy-by-design, event streaming, API management, SQL, NoSQL, data lakes, and blob storage.
Benefits
- Career development opportunities with an international company.
- Potential eligibility 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 FreeU education benefits.
- Role based in Alameda, California, with a standard work shift and no travel.
- Equal opportunity employer with benefits and workplace recognition focused on diversity and inclusion.
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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.