Sr Java Full Stack Engineer

The Opportunity

The Sr Java Full Stack Software Engineer works out of office daily in our San Diego, CA location in the Infectious Diseases Group in Abbott Rapid Diagnostics.

We’re empowering smarter medical and economic decision-making to help transform the way people manage their health at all stages of life. Every day, more than 10 million tests are run on Abbott’s diagnostics instruments, providing lab results for millions of people.

This role participates in the design, development, and validation of software for embedded systems, ensuring compliance with FDA requirements. They play a crucial role in software design, coding, and validation, addressing moderate scope problems, and participating in software development activities under guidance and mentoring junior engineers. Adherence to FDA-compliant Design Control procedures and proficiency in software implementation are key aspects of the role.

What You’ll Work On

Design, implement, and evaluate software using languages such as JAVA, C, C++, C#, and Python

Assist in preparing software design requirements and specifications in accordance with Abbott's design development process

Evaluate selected designs through testing and documentation, addressing problems of moderate scope. Participate in software development, verification, and validation activities under guidance Adhere to FDA-compliant Design Control procedures for software development. Demonstrate proficiency in software implementation

Demonstrates expert knowledge and proficiency of the complete software development process.

Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software using Java, with a strong grasp of OOP, data structures, concurrency, and design patterns.

Develop and maintain database, JDBC, RESTful and SOAP-based web services, ensuring high performance and security.

Architect and implement microservices and SOA-based solutions using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Jakarta EE.

Assist in the integration of internal and external systems using API gateways, message brokers (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ), and enterprise integration patterns.

Proficiency in Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) is expected of knowledge level at least.

Participate in the end-to-end implementation of all internal and external interfaces, implementation patterns and unit, integration and performance testing strategy for all features in one or more subsystems.

Debugs, troubleshoots, and isolates software problems as well as provide strategic solutions, analysis, and contribute to process / design improvements.

Issue tracking and design description process with input from others. Communicates with internal stakeholders on decisions that impact their team.

Assist with design reviews, create / update design documents and address review feedback. Assess areas impacted by new feature requests and determine approach to accommodate new capabilities.

Complies with U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations, other regulatory requirements, Company policies, operating procedures, processes, and task assignments. Maintains positive and cooperative communications and collaboration with all levels of employees, customers, contractors, and vendors.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree (±16 years) in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Minimum 6 years of related experience, or Master’s Degree with 4+ years of related experience

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong familiarity with current development tools (IDEs, debuggers, unit test frameworks)

Knowledge of design controls and regulations for medical device development is a plus

Understanding of quality software engineering principles aligned with ISO, IEEE, or FDA-recognized standards is a plus

Preferred Qualifications

Master’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science preferred

Experience testing software is a plus

Proven expertise in software architecture and framework development

Solid understanding of embedded software principles and best practices including SDLC.

Strong hands-on programming knowledge in Java

Experience with visual modeling, multi-threading, formal development methodologies, and source code management

Medical device product development knowledge is a plus

Strong knowledge of C and C++ is a plus

Experience with cross-platform programming languages like React is a plus

Experience with Raspberry Pi development is a plus