Sr. Software Engineer (Backend)
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Job Location:
Alameda, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 100000 - 200000
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Senior Software Engineer (Backend)
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. Youll also have access to:
Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
Employees can qualify forfree medical coverage in ourHealth Investment Plan (HIP) PPOmedical 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 bachelors 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.
ABOUT LINGO
Lingo is building a cuttingedge digital health platform that fuses continuous biosensor data highperformance backend engineering and advanced analytics to help people live healthier longer fuller lives. Our systems process massive volumes of realtime data and the backend is the heartbeat that transforms biosensor signals into actionable health insights for our users.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Were seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Backend) to design build and optimize Lingos backend systems ensuring they are scalable resilient and secure. You will play a pivotal role in implementing highperformance APIs eventdriven services and data integrations across our global this role youll work closely with Product Mobile Platform/SRE and Data/ML teams to deliver robust cloudnative services troubleshoot complex issues and continuously improve reliability and developer experience. Youll contribute your expertise to architecture discussions lead implementation of key projects and mentor junior engineers in best practices.
WHAT YOULL DO
- Design develop and maintain scalable microservices and APIs for realtime biosensor data processing.
- Implement eventdriven integrations with messaging/streaming systems (Kafka RabbitMQ) and analytics pipelines.
- Collaborate with SRE to ensure observability performance and operational excellence across backend services.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews contributing to decisions on service boundaries data models and communication patterns.
- Optimize backend services for low latency high throughput and cost efficiency.
- Apply privacybydesign and security standards in line with HIPAA/GDPR compliance requirements.
- Write clean maintainable and testable code; establish and uphold engineering standards within the team.
- Mentor junior engineers through code reviews pair programming and knowledge sharing sessions.
- Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and postmortem analysis.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5-8 years of backend engineering experience with distributed cloudnative systems.
- Strong skills in microservices architecture and API design (REST; familiarity with GraphQL/gRPC is a plus).
- Experience with Kubernetes in production environments and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
- Handson proficiency with messaging/streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
- Programming expertise in backend languages such as Java Kotlin Python.
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance requirements (HIPAA GDPR or similar).
- Solid understanding of performance optimization scalability patterns and async data processing.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills; ability to work crossfunctionally with other engineering and product teams.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience integrating backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines.
- Exposure to API gateways authentication/authorization patterns and rate limiting strategies.
- Background in digital health IoT or other missioncritical platforms.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP) and infrastructureascode tooling (Terraform Helm).
LINGO CULTURE
Customerfirst qualitydriven growthminded and united. As a Senior Backend Engineer youll contribute directly to delivering secure reliable and scalable features helping teams ship innovative health technology quickly and with confidence.
Learn more about our health and wellness benefits which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:
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
$100000.00 $200000.00In specific locations the pay range may vary from the range posted.
JOB FAMILY:
Product Development
DIVISION:
LNGO Lingo
LOCATION:
United States > Alameda : 2901 Harbor Bay Parkway
ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
WORK SHIFT:
Standard
TRAVEL:
Yes 5 % of the Time
MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:
No
SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day) Continuous standing for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.
EEO is the Law link - English: EEO is the Law link - Espanol: Experience:
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