Principal Software Engineer

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.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with a strong background in building reactive systems to join our team. You will lead the team in delivering clinically validated, regulatory grade digital health products and solutions in preventive care using Bio-Wearables. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in designing, developing, and deploying scalable, high-performance applications using reactive programming paradigms and frameworks such as Vert.x. The role involves driving development efforts, ensuring code quality, and shaping the overall architecture of reactive systems.

What You’ll Work On 

• Lead the architecture, design, and implementation of reactive applications and microservices using Vert.x.

• Develop high-performance, low-latency applications leveraging non-blocking I/O and event-driven paradigms.

• Develop, test and integrate software using current software technologies. Translate complex requirements into functional architecture.

• Oversee the implementation of RESTful APIs, WebSocket interfaces, and distributed systems.

• Define the technical target state and drive strategy achievement.

• Create and maintain software architecture and design documents.

• Guide software development through high-level decision-making.

• Provide technical guidance and mentoring in configuration management best practices.

• Develop, maintain and support high-quality continuous integration build systems

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve complex technical issues.

• Conduct and oversee code reviews to maintain high coding standards.

• Introduce new techniques and technologies to evolve existing processes and infrastructure, manage RCE process for procuring hardware/software solutions.

• Optimize application performance for scalability and reliability in high-concurrency environments.

• Present progress reports and set goals.

• Work with developers and other stakeholders to create software builds and configuration controlled releases, as well as baseline builds for milestone releases.

• Support company initiatives and comply with regulatory requirements by FDA and other relevant global regulatory agencies

Required Qualifications 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

• Minimum of 10 years of software systems lifecycle (systems requirements definition through design validation) in a team environment, including providing technical leadership.

• Hands-on experience with Vert.x and reactive systems.

• Strong programming skills in Java or Kotlin (experience with other JVM-based languages is a plus).

• Extensive experience with RESTful APIs, WebSocket, and message-driven architectures.

• Proficiency in NoSQL databases (e.g., Cassandra).

• Expert understanding of data architecture and design practices for both local device and enterprise/cloud data solutions.

• Expert understanding of relational database technologies (e.g., MS SQL, MySQL, SQLite).

• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD).

• Ability to analyze and optimize software performance including timing analysis, resource allocation, and memory management is required.

• Experience in application security aspects such as obfuscation and code protection.

• Experience in documenting architectural and design decisions.

• Familiarity with containerization tools and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

• Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills, adept at adapting communication style to diverse audiences.

• Possesses strong business acumen and effective collaboration with peers and leadership.

Preferred Qualifications 

• 5 years of experience in Vert.x and reactive systems.

• Familiarity with additional reactive frameworks such as Akka or Spring WebFlux.

• Experience deploying and managing applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Expertise in asynchronous programming, event-driven architecture, and non-blocking I/O.

• Knowledge of polyglot programming and multi-language application development.

• Knowledge of graph databases is a significant plus.

• Experience with medical devices and bio-wearable sensors.

• Contributions to open-source Vert.x projects or related communities.

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