Go Software Engineer - Cloud (abbott)

 Candidates will work with a modern tech stack on a Software as a Service cloud platform as well as internal and external APIs to improve the health and well-being of users in over 25 countries in a large-scale system responsible for processing billions of messages daily.   The candidate should bring passion for software engineering and a desire for continuous learning as well as versatility, leadership qualities and a desire to shape the direction of the team. Candidate will support building scalable, highly available, efficient, and secure cloud solutions for a medical device SaaS.  #software

Responsibilities 

• Design and implement services and components utilizing Go for cloud-based platforms 

• 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 unit testable code that are highly maintainable 

• Collaborate directly with InfoSec to design and implement secure solutions 

• Provide new ideas and insight 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 

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  Build out our internal tooling and APIs to make business and engineering processes more efficient 

• 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 

• Engage in technical planning, design, and code reviews including peer code reviews 

• Collaborate as an enaged member of an agile team, realizing features through development, test, and delivery 

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

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or other relevant field 

• Software development experience, ideally in Go.  A willingness to learn new software development languages to meet goals and objectives 

• Strong Computer Science fundamentals and experience with software development 

• Understands Object Oriented Programming and design and building modular unit testable code 

• Understands the principles of designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex asynchronous messaging and backend processing jobs 

• Understands the concepts of Docker Containers and container orchestration services such as Docker Swarm, ECS, and Kubernetes. 

• Experience with Git for source control on a collaborative project 

• Comfortable working asynchronously with a distributed team 

Preferred Qualifications 

• Practical experience and understanding of working with and developing RESTful APIs and microservices 

• Experience contributing to a scalable architecture/design of existing and new systems that are highly available and easy to maintain and monitor 

• Understanding and familiarity of Test Driven Development (TDD) 

• Experience working with relational datastores such as SQL Server, Postgresql, or MySql 

• Experience working in an agile environment. 

• Practical Knowledge of Linux.