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.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your 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.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a 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 worldwide 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 the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

The Sr Embedded Software Engineer works out of our San Diego, CA office on site every day in the Infectious Diseases Group in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics. We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

This role will design, implement, and evaluate software using languages such as Java full stack engineering using embedded coding. This role is on site working with a great team in the office in San Diego, CA.

What You’ll Work On

• Demonstrate expert knowledge and proficiency of the complete software development process using Java as the main language.

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software using Java, with a strong grasp of OOP, data structures, concurrency, and design patterns.

• Experience with database, JDBC, RESTful and SOAP-based web services.

• Implement microservices and SOA-based solutions using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Jakarta EE.

• Experience with integration of internal and external systems using API gateways, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and enterprise integration patterns.

• Involved in end-to-end implementation of all internal and external interfaces, implementation patterns and unit, integration and performance testing strategy for all features in one or more subsystems.

• Debug, troubleshoot, and isolate software problems as well as provide strategic solutions, analysis, and contribute to process/design improvements.

• Communicate with internal stakeholders on decisions that impact their team.

• Participate in design reviews, create/update design documents and address review feedback. Also contribute and support reviews held by peers on related projects and provide feedback.

• Assist in assessing areas impacted by new feature requests and determine approach to accommodate new capabilities.

• Participates in root cause investigations on high-complexity or high-severity issues.

• Support all Company initiatives as identified by management and in support of Quality Management Systems (QMS), Environmental Management Systems (EMS), and other regulatory requirements.

• Maintain positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree plus a minimum of 6 years of related experience

• Or Master’s Degree with at least 4+ years of experience in Java development.

• Proven expertise in software architecture and framework building.

• Strong hands-on programming/coding knowledge of Java.

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Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in engineering or computer science preferred

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for staying updated with the latest industry trends.

• Medical device product development knowledge a plus

• Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms

• Experience with issue tracking software such as Jira.

• Experience with visual modeling, multi-threading, formal software development methodologies, and source code management

• Ability to independently learn/explore existing system functionality.

• Experience with cross platform programming languages like React is a plus.

• Intermediate to moderate understanding of Linux Operating system.

• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills. Ability to debug and arrive at solutions.

• C, C++ and other embedded languages are a plus!!!!

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks.

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.

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The base pay for this position is $86,700.00 – $173,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.