Abbott Posted November 13, 2026

Software Engineer II

Madison, Wisconsin, United States FULL_TIME
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About this opportunity

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

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 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Within the Cancer Diagnostics division, we are cancer fighters, united by our mission to change lives by providing earlier, smarter answers. Through advances in cancer detection and treatment guidance, we will help eradicate the disease and the suffering it causes.

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 student debt program, and FreeU 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  

The Software Engineer II is a hands-on builder within the product-led Software Engineering team in Abbott’s cancer diagnostics division, focused on Digital Engineering and Integrations. This team owns the customer-facing portals that serve patients, providers, and payers, along with the integrations that power them. You will design, build, and run secure, reliable, full-stack services on AWS, working in a squad that owns its product end to end. You will write high-quality code, strengthen how we build, and help the engineers around you grow.

We are looking for someone who builds with the full lifecycle in mind: thoughtful design, solid testing, and real responsibility for how services run once they are live. The ideal candidate is a strong collaborator, shares what they know and learn generously, and is able to work towards solid solutions.

What You’ll Work On  

Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs, services, and event-driven integrations using Java, Spring Boot, and messaging platforms such as Kafka, with attention to versioning, error handling, and idempotency.

Contribute to front-end work, building responsive, accessible user interfaces using Angular, TypeScript, RxJS, HTML, and CSS.

Treat performance, availability, observability, security, and compliance requirements as first-class parts of every design, not afterthoughts.

Write and automate unit and integration tests that give the team confidence to ship often.

Deploy and operate services on AWS using containers and infrastructure as code, supported by GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Contribute to design discussions and code reviews and help raise the quality bar across the squad.

Work within their team in an Agile environment to deliver features that serve our portal users.

Required Qualifications  

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience, plus 5+ years of related software engineering experience.

Demonstrated experience building and supporting distributed microservices in production using Java or a comparable object-oriented language, a framework such as Spring Boot, and RESTful or GraphQL APIs, including event-driven integrations with messaging platforms such as Kafka.

Experience building and running services on a major cloud platform such as AWS or Azure.

Experience with SQL and relational database skills.

Experience writing automated unit and integration tests, and working with Git, Docker, and CI/CD pipelines.

Experience troubleshooting issues across application services, APIs, databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Strong written, verbal, and listening communication skills, with the ability to collaborate within their team and independently own technical deliverables.

Preferred Qualifications  

Experience building user interfaces with Angular, TypeScript, and RxJS, with a solid grounding in HTML, CSS, and accessibility basics, and with state management (NgRx) or micro-frontend approaches.

Experience with AI-assisted software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or equivalent solutions.

Experience with AWS services such as EKS/ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, and IAM.

Experience with Terraform or Kubernetes.

Knowledge of NoSQL databases.

Knowledge of securing APIs using Spring Security and OAuth 2/OIDC.

Willingness to work in a regulated industry (such as healthcare or life sciences).

Apply Now  

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

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.

Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott, and on X @AbbottNews.

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job details

Seniority
Not listed
Function
Information Technology
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Employment type
FULL_TIME

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Information Technology role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 1652 comparable Information Technology roles across 95 biopharma companies.

1652Comparable roles tracked
1526Currently active
95Companies hiring similar roles
44Countries represented

Salary context

238 of 1652 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · MedTech Field Service Software Tech Entry level - East Coast · IQVIA $27/hr – $30/hr (≈ $56,160–$62,400/yr)
Peer group range $59,280 – $400,000 (median $170,100)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 1652 comparable roles

India606
United States486
Spain125
Poland75
China42
United Kingdom37

+ 38 more countries

Seniority mix

971 of 1652 peers have a known seniority level

Senior407
Manager207
Associate Director91
Principal90
Director65
Associate59
Intern/Fellow/Postdoc26
Senior Director17
Executive/VP9

Therapeutic area mix

9 of 1652 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology7
Vaccines & Infectious Disease2

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