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About Abbott
Abbott Laboratories is a global healthcare company that manufactures and markets a broad and diversified line of health care products including diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals, and branded generic pharmaceuticals. Industry: Healthcare & Medical Devices
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As a Senior Software Engineer on the Lingo team, you will design, build, and optimize backend systems to process real-time biosensor data for a health platform. You will develop high-performance APIs, event-driven services, and data integrations while ensuring system reliability and security across global deployments. Your daily work involves building microservices using Java Spring Boot, implementing messaging and streaming integrations with Kafka or RabbitMQ, and collaborating with SRE and Data teams to improve observability. You will also participate in architecture reviews, mentor junior engineers, and ensure compliance with HIPAA and GDPR standards. The role requires expertise in distributed cloud-native systems, Kubernetes, and RESTful API design. You will solve complex technical challenges involving high throughput, low latency, and the integration of backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines within a digital health context.
What does a Software Engineer earn in California?
Median $214000 from 775 postings across 63 companies.
Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and RESTful APIs using Java Spring Boot.
Implement event-driven integrations with messaging and streaming systems like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
Ensure system security and compliance with HIPAA and GDPR privacy standards.
Participate in architecture reviews to determine service boundaries, data models, and communication patterns.
Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and post-mortem analysis.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing.
What we're looking for
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 9 years of experience with distributed, cloud-native systems.
Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot for RESTful API development and the Spring ecosystem.
Experience with microservices architecture and REST API design.
Hands-on proficiency with messaging and streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Experience with Kubernetes in production environments and familiarity with service mesh concepts.
Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance requirements including HIPAA and GDPR.
Familiarity with GraphQL, gRPC, Kotlin, or Python (preferred); experience with analytics/ML pipelines, API gateways, cloud platforms, or IoT (preferred).