Senior Web/Front-End Developer

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.

We’re focused on helping people with diabetes manage their health 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.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.

• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year

• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution

• Tuition reimbursement, the student debt program and education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.

• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world 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 a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

THE OPPORTUNITY

This Senior Web/Front-End Developer​position can work out remotely within the U.S.

Sr. Web/Front-End Developer will work on a healthcare product with a modern tech stack on a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) cloud platform serving millions of users a day in over 50 countries. We are looking for a team member with a strong engineering mindset and the ability to influence technical direction internally and externally to their team. We are seeking someone who is not only a strong front-end engineer but also a forward-thinking technical leader who brings architectural insight, mentorship, and strategic thinking. The ideal candidate communicates exceptionally well, thrives in a collaborative environment, and continuously strives to elevate both the product and the engineering team.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a technical leader, providing guidance on architectural direction, best practices, and engineering standards.

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to integrate with APIs that empower users to share and utilize medical data.

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to define API contracts and interface boundaries.

• Mentor teammates to strengthen the team’s technical capabilities and foster continuous improvement.

• Bring a forward-looking perspective, evaluating emerging technologies and recommending opportunities for innovation.

• Translate complex designs and wireframes into high-quality, maintainable code.

• Optimize components for maximum performance across platforms.

• Develop new user-facing features using React.js in a cloud-native environment.

• Design and implement unit-testable, maintainable code following modern engineering principles.

• Work directly with InfoSec teams to design secure software solutions and incorporate best practices.

• Ensure performance, uptime, and scale while maintaining high standards of code quality and thoughtful architecture.

• Contribute to significant architectural and operational decisions that shape the future of the platform.

• Create documentation, diagrams, flowcharts, and models illustrating internal design and workflow of solution components.

• Contribute to reusable, scalable components and front-end libraries for long-term use.

• Collaborate as an engaged member of an Agile team throughout development, testing, and delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related engineering discipline or equivalent work experience.

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including leading decision on complex projects.

• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance or mentorship to other engineers.

• Hands-on experience developing production front-end applications using React, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and TypeScript

• Deep understanding of React, Typescript and JavaScript.

• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Ability to evaluate emerging technologies and make strategic recommendations for platform evolution.

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

• Proven experience using, contributing to, and extending design systems and Figma design tokens.

• Highly motivated to learn new software skills to meet goals and objectives.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and high attention to detail.

• Demonstrated track record of working well with others in cross-functional roles in fast-paced and changing environments, including asynchronously with distributed teams.

• Experience conducting effective and collaborative code reviews with colleagues.

Preferred

• Experience working with multilanguage support, internationalization, and/or headless content management systems.

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

• Experience with open-source software development, current/emerging trends, and can make recommendations to help the organization innovate.

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