Senior React Developer

Job description

At Abbott, we believe people with diabetes should be empowered to enjoy healthy and happy lives.

That’s why we’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health more effectively and comfortably, with life-changing products that provide accurate data to drive better-informed decisions.

We’re revolutionizing the way people monitor their glucose levels with our new sensing technology.

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

In our new Technology Hub in Barcelona, you will join our purpose-driven team to :

• Drive innovation in health tech by developing scalable platforms that transform real-time biosensor data into meaningful insights.
  
  
• Shape the future of digital health by building solutions that empower people to take control of their metabolic health.
  
  
• Create engineering solutions with a global impact by working on technology that reaches millions worldwide.
  
  
• Advance accessibility and compatibility by ensuring our solutions integrate seamlessly across devices and ecosystems.
  
  

Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud platform that serves users in over 49 countries.

The core platform consists of systems housed in a large-scale environment responsible for processing billions of tasks every day.

The candidate should have strong leadership ability and bring a passion for software engineering to help shape the direction of the team.

Highly sought-after qualities include strong communication skills, versatility, and a desire to continuously learn, improve, and empower other team members.

Candidates will support building scalable, highly available, reliable, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.

What You’ll Work On

• Develop and improve our existing React healthcare platforms.
  
  
• Design and implement services, features, and components utilizing React.
  
  
• Participate in Go development for backend.
  
  
• Develop high-volume, low-latency services for a global healthcare platform.
  
  
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize their medical data in partner systems.
  
  
• Design and implement highly maintainable, unit testable code.
  
  
• Collaborate directly with InfoSec teams to design and implement secure solutions.
  
  
• Collaborate with both internal and external team members to shape and define API contracts.
  
  
• Provide new ideas and insights in collaboration with the data services team.
  
  
• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful design.
  
  
• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions in collaboration with the Architecture team.
  
  
• Implement systemic changes to align existing systems with current architectural goals.
  
  
• Create diagrams, flowcharts, and models that illustrate the internal design and workflow of solution components.
  
  
• Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team focused on realizing features through development, testing, and delivery.
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline.
  
  
• Experience in backend development, preferably in Go or other programming languages.
  
  
• Highly motivated to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives.
  
  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail.
  
  
• Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews.
  
  
• Practical experience with and understanding of RESTful APIs and microservices.
  
  
• Experience contributing to scalable architecture/design of highly available and maintainable systems.
  
  
• Understanding of Object-Oriented Programming and modular, testable code building.
  
  
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs.
  
  
• Proficiency with Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with multilanguage support, internationalization, and content management systems.
  
  
• Deep backend understanding and experience in React.
  
  
• Experience with relational and document-oriented datastores such as SQL Server, Postgres, or MySQL.
  
  
• Experience with data visualization tools like D3.
  
  
• Understanding of Test Driven Development (TDD).
  
  
• Practical knowledge of Linux.
  
  
• Understanding containerization concepts with Docker and orchestration services like Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes.
  
  
• Experience with Grafana, Kibana, Segment, Sentry, feature flagging, and/or Mixpanel.
  
  
• Experience with open-source software development, current trends, and making innovative recommendations.
  
  

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