Lead Software Engineer

About AbbVie
AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas: immunology, oncology, neuroscience, eye care, virology, women’s health and gastroenterology, in addition to products and services across its Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com. Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Lead Software Engineer  

Allergan Data Labs is on a mission to transform the Allergan Aesthetics business at AbbVie, the fourth largest pharmaceutical company in the world. Allergan Aesthetics brands are iconic household names that include Botox, CoolSculpting and Juvéderm among others. The aesthetics business is ripe for disruption and we're building a high performing team to do just that.

 

Our Product Engineering team has been tasked with building a technology platform to service the needs of medical aesthetic professionals and patients. We're poised to release our platform, Allē, this year to an audience of nearly 25,000 providers and 6 million consumers. We’re looking for a Sr. Software Engineer who is interested in working within a startup-oriented environment while having the backing of a large company. If that’s you, please read on.

    You will:

Champion code quality, reusability, scalability and security

Drive strategic software architecture decisions

Collaborate with product, UI/UX, engineering and outside vendors to develop high functioning software

Develop a deep understanding of the jobs-to-be-done by our customers and translate that knowledge into intuitive product features

Mentor software engineers utilizing proven design patterns and your experience building large scale public facing software

Conduct design and code reviews

Take small seedling ideas or concepts and turn them into high fidelity technical game plans

Care about who you work with and how work is done. We hire carefully and the entire team is given the opportunity to take part in evaluating potential hires

Relate to our core values (see below) and would like to contribute to a positive working environment and culture

 

Qualifications

Required Experience & Technical Skills:

At least 5 years as a Software Engineer

Knowledgeable and passionate about TypeScript, Node.js, GraphQL and associated frameworks and packages

Experience with modern front-end technologies like React.js, Gatsby.js and similar

Adept at drafting, validating and implementing software systems architecture

Understanding of modern development and deployment technologies and can speak thoroughly to their pros and cons

Strong familiarity with data structures, algorithms and common design patterns

Proficient with SQL and NoSQL flavors like PostgreSQL, MySQL and DynamoDB

Proponent of code testing and familiar with the common frameworks for unit, integration and functional tests

Comfortable working within a Linux/Unix environment

Proficient with Git version control

Preference for modern, thoughtful and beautiful UI/UX, as well as tools like Figma, Sketch and InVision

Well versed in the serverless application framework, AWS Lambda and microservice architectures

You've built GraphQL API's and are familiar with the Apollo Platform

DevOps skills including AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, etc.

Experience building iOS and Android applications using React Native

Core Values:

Be Humble: You’re smart yet always interested in learning from others.

Work Transparently: You always deal in an honest, direct and transparent way.

Take Ownership: You embrace responsibility and find joy in having the answers.

Learn More: Through blog posts, newsletters, podcasts, video tutorials and meetups you regularly self-educate and improve your skill set.

Show Gratitude: You show appreciation and return kindness to those you work with.

Perks

Competitive salary

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance

401k with up to 8% company match

Vacation / PTO

Entire week off for the holidays

Brand new MacBook Pro and accompanying equipment to do great work

Attend a tech conference of your choice each year

On-campus restaurant

On-campus gym, tennis court, basketball court and softball field

Discounts on Allergan products

The Allergan Data Labs team is led and comprised of technology and marketing experts with experience ranging from successful tech startups to large medical corporations. We welcome the interest and opportunity to speak with those from all backgrounds.

Significant Work Activities
Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
Travel
No
Job Type
Experienced
Schedule
Full-time
Job Level Code
IC
Equal Employment Opportunity
At AbbVie, we value bringing together individuals from diverse backgrounds to develop new and innovative solutions for patients. As an equal opportunity employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.