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Abbott

Software Engineer

Abbott, Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, 60045

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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

Software Engineer

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people's health. We're always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Working at Abbott

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. 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 a high employer contribution

Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/tackling-student-debt-for-our-employees.html) student debt program, and FreeU (https://www.abbott.com/corpnewsroom/strategy-and-strength/college-degree-for-free-its-possible-with-freeu.html) 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 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.

The Opportunity

Our locations in

Chicago, Lake Forest, IL or Charlottesville, VA

office currently has an opportunity for a

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This

Software Engineer

role is within our CMI business unit.? Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers.

A Software Engineer II is a mid-level developer/programmer who works primarily as a contributor on a diverse Scrum team by participating in the development process of web-based and other software applications that are data-centric in nature and that operate using a database server back-end. A person in this position is capable of designing solutions and completing development for bug fixes and new feature tasks without the continuous supervision of a senior developer. A Software Engineer II is also capable of assisting more experienced developers with the coding of architectural changes to the software. The job requires excellent communication skills and the ability to work as a cooperative team member to achieve team goals. Position requires a wide degree of creativity and an individual who can rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.

What You'll Work On:

Assist in development of multi-tiered software applications

Participate in the design and requirement gathering for adding new features and functionality into an existing system

Debug and determine fixes for identified software defects

Unit test implemented software to ensure the individual unit meets applicable software requirements

Assist in integration testing of multiple compiled units to ensure compilation meets applicable software requirements

Successfully work with others on a highly integrated Agile/Scrum team.

Some travel (~5% of time)

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field required or 2 or more years of experience directly related to the RALS platform.

2 or more years of production quality software engineering & coding

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Demonstrated proficiency with C# or other object-oriented language in a production level environment, required

Experience with web development

SQL database (capable of crafting query scripts), required

Familiarity software version control (git or equivalent), required

Software development lifecycle management (TFS or similar), required

Apply Now (https://www.jobs.abbott/us/en)

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives:

www.abbottbenefits.com (http://www.abbottbenefits.com/pages/candidate.aspx)

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future

The base pay for this position is $60,000.00 - $120,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

Abbot welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

We provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

To request accommodation, please call 224-667-4913 or email corpjat@abbott.com