Director of Software Engineering at Acuity leading AI - enabled digital commerce platform development and transforming user experience with modern architecture.
About the role
- Staff Cloud Software Engineer at Abbott building Java and Spring Boot microservices on Azure healthcare platform. Leading secure and scalable solutions for global healthcare using best practices.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain Java and Spring Boot microservices deployed to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Build and evolve cloud‑native services following best practices for scalability, resiliency, security, and observability
- Develop high‑volume, low‑latency distributed systems for a global healthcare SaaS platform
- Design and integrate RESTful APIs exposed through Azure API Management (APIM)
- Implement event‑driven and asynchronous workflows using Azure Service Bus (queues, topics, subscriptions)
- Design, implement, and operate data access layers using:
- • Azure Cosmos DB for globally distributed, scalable data workloads
- • PostgreSQL for relational, transactional, and consistency‑critical use cases
- Collaborate with Architecture, Platform, and InfoSec teams to deliver secure, compliant Azure-native solutions
- Define and evolve API contracts, schemas, and service interaction patterns
- Ensure systems meet high standards for performance, uptime, resilience, scalability, and disaster recovery
- Contribute meaningfully to microservices, data, and cloud architecture decisions
- Build internal tooling and platform capabilities that improve developer productivity and operational excellence
- Lead modernization efforts to align legacy services with cloud‑native and Kubernetes best practices
- Produce high‑quality architecture documentation, including diagrams and data flow models
- Participate fully in Agile delivery, from technical planning through release and operational support
- Lead and perform technical design reviews and peer code reviews
- Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across teams
- Stay current with developments in Java, Spring Boot, Azure services, Kubernetes, and distributed systems
- Support company initiatives and comply with FDA and other applicable global regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Strong, hands‑on experience with Java and Spring Boot microservices
- Proven experience designing and operating systems on Microsoft Azure
- Production experience with:
- • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- • Azure Service Bus for asynchronous and message‑driven processing
- • Azure Cosmos DB
- • PostgreSQL, including schema design, indexing, query optimization, and transactional consistency
- • Azure API Management (APIM)
- Strong understanding of relational data modeling and trade‑offs between relational and NoSQL data stores
- Experience with Java concurrency and asynchronous execution models
- Proven ability to design highly available, scalable distributed systems
- Experience with database access frameworks (e.g., JPA/Hibernate, Spring Data, or similar)
- Familiarity with observability and production operations (logging, metrics, tracing, health probes)
- Strong experience with automated testing, TDD, and CI/CD pipelines
- Comfortable working in Agile / Scrum environments
- Practical knowledge of Linux, containerization, and Kubernetes fundamentals
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated technical leadership, ownership, and mentoring capabilities.
Benefits
- 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.
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