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About the Role

Design, build, and optimize Lingo's backend systems, ensuring they are scalable, resilient, and secure. This role involves daily use of Java Spring Boot to build high-performance APIs, event-driven services, and data integrations. You will collaborate with various teams to deliver robust cloud-native services, troubleshoot issues, and improve reliability. This position offers opportunities to contribute to architecture, lead projects, and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain scalable microservices and APIs for real-time biosensor data processing.
Build and evolve backend services using Java Spring Boot, applying best practices for RESTful API design, dependency injection, Spring Security, and service modularity.
Implement event-driven integrations with messaging and streaming systems such as Kafka and RabbitMQ and contribute to analytics pipelines.
Collaborate with SRE to ensure observability, performance, and operational excellence across backend services.
Participate in architecture and design reviews, contributing to decisions on service boundaries, data models, and communication patterns.
Optimize backend services for low latency, high throughput, and cost efficiency.
Apply privacy-by-design and security standards in line with HIPAA and GDPR compliance requirements.
Write clean, maintainable, and testable code and establish and uphold engineering standards within the team.
Mentor junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing sessions.
Troubleshoot production issues and contribute to incident response and post-mortem analysis.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Minimum 7 years of experience with distributed, cloud-native systems.
Strong skills in microservices architecture and API design (REST).
Experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
Hands-on proficiency with messaging and streaming systems such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Strong programming expertise in Java with hands-on production experience using Spring Boot, including RESTful API development, dependency injection, and Spring ecosystem tooling.
Knowledge of secure coding practices and compliance requirements including HIPAA, GDPR, or similar.
Solid understanding of performance optimization, scalability patterns, and async data processing.
Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work cross-functionally with engineering and product teams.
Experience integrating backend services with analytics and machine learning pipelines.
Exposure to API gateways, authentication and authorization patterns, and rate limiting strategies.
Background in digital health, IoT, or other mission-critical platforms.
Familiarity with cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP, and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform or Helm.

Skills

Java Spring Boot
Microservices architecture
API design (REST)
GraphQL
gRPC
Kubernetes
Kafka
RabbitMQ
Kotlin
Python
HIPAA
GDPR
Azure
AWS
GCP
Terraform
Helm

Location

Alameda, CA

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior
7 years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline

Salary/Compensations

$100,000.00 – $200,000.00

Benefits

Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan
Excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
Tuition reimbursement
Freedom 2 Save student debt program
FreeU education benefit
Health and wellness benefits

About the Company

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life.
Lingo is building a groundbreaking health platform that combines continuous biosensor data, real-time analytics, and personalized insights to help people live fuller, longer, and healthier lives.
Our systems ingest millions of sensor readings daily, powering experiences for consumers and partners worldwide, with the reliability and scalability of cloud-native, enterprise-grade platforms.

Equal Opportunity

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.